Twitch Streamer Kai Cenat Taken Into Police Custody at Large New York Giveaway Occasion – E! On-line

A Twitch streamer is going through authorized bother after his New York Metropolis giveaway occasion derailed into chaos.

Kai Cenat, who promised to reward online game consoles and different digital gadgets to followers, was taken into police custody on Aug. 4 after a large crowd fashioned in Manhattan’s Union Sq. and pandemonium broke out, in response to NBC News. The occasion attracted a “couple thousand individuals,” police instructed NBC New York.

Cenat has not been charged for the incident.

Nevertheless, the New York Police Division mentioned in a press conference that, relying on its authorized division’s steerage, Cenat may very well be charged with inciting a riot. E! Information has reached out to Cenat’s rep for remark however hasn’t heard again.

Cenat, 21, introduced the giveaway on Aug. 2 on his Twitch social media web page, the place he has over six million followers. Within the clip, which has amassed over two million views, Cenat mentioned that he and a gaggle of associates would drive to the park “in an enormous ass truck” to distribute PlayStation 5, PCs, headphones and extra.