Twitter Forces McConnell Campaign To Pull Video Showing Violent Threats Against Him

On Monday night, dozens of left-wing activists converged on the Louisville home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to protest for gun control. Video of one of the protesters, Black Lives Matter activist Chanelle Helm, calling for violence against McConnell — initially posted on Facebook and then tweeted out by congressional staffer Ben Goldey — quickly went viral, retweeted by the McConnell re-election campaign and Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra. By Tuesday, Twitter had locked all three accounts until they pulled their posts featuring the video.

In the since-pulled video, which was first live-streamed on Facebook, one of the protesters says about McConnell’s recent shoulder injury that maybe someone is using a “voodoo doll” against the senator. Helm responds, “Just stab the motherf***er in the heart, please.” She went on to say she hopes he suffers “one of those heart attacks where they can’t breath, and they’re holding their chest and they fall backwards.” Instead of nursing a “broken arm” after his fall, she said, “he should have broken his raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck.”