If you missed it, Miss Trudy, a Kenyan travel and lifestyle YouTuber was involved in a messy altercation with security staff at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport over claims that the security personnels were preventing her from shooting content at what looked like the entrance of the airport.
The enraged Trudy filmed the fiasco while calling out the security for mishandling content creators like her. The security had at that time called police on her and her crew.
In a video shared by the Youtuber on wednesday had her saying this;
“Guys, we’re being harassed at the airport, these guys actually want to arrest us because we are filming. No, this is getting out of control, this is too much. Infact, they went and brought the police to arrest me because I’m creating content.”
She continued, “This is Kenya! I’m just creating content. I’m leaving Mombasa, I’m going back to Nairobi, someone stops me at the entrance, starts harassing me tellingto stop creating content! I’m just tired!”
The clip however did not sit well with Kenyans on Twitter who blasted her for what they termed as entitlement and ignorance that has made her feel above the law.
Andrew Kibe has also shared his thoughts on the same through his YouTube channel.
Kibe weighing on the matter came out as among the few who sided with Trudy amidst mockery and dismissal from many.
Kibe said the content creator was facing predicaments because she is African. He went on to state how his skin colour had also made him to be negatively profiled.
Kibe said African security officers have developed a negative profile for fellow citizens in public spaces such as airports and malls.
“You don’t have the skin colour to allow you to be shooting random content, you have the wrong skin colour, but if you were white your skin colour would be telling us you are shooting a documentary,” Kibe said.