'This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell, campaign manager Kevin Golden told the Courier Journal.
Phillip M. Bailey and Ben TobinSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign has been thrown in Twitter jail.
"This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell. This is a problem with the speech police in America today," McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden told the Courier Journal. "The Lexington Herald-Leader can attack Mitch with cartoon tombstones of his opponents. But we can’t mock it."
McConnell, who fractured his shoulder on Sunday, has been under a heated spotlight after two mass shootings that killed more than 30 people and injured several more. On Monday, Black Lives Matter Louisville leader Chanelle Helm said in a live video of the protest outside of McConnell's Highlands-area home that instead of falling and injuring his shoulder over the weekend, the GOP leader"should have broken his little raggedy, wrinkled- neck."After a man makes a reference to a hypothetical McConnell voodoo doll, Helm replied,"Just stab the m----- f----- in the heart." That comment went viral on Twitter.
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