Washington (CNN) The campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell found itself locked out of Twitter after sharing a video containing a threat made against the GOP leader that violated the social media company's policy.

"This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell," McConnell's campaign manager, Kevin Golden, said Wednesday in a statement. "This is the problem with the speech police in America today: The Lexington-Herald can attack Mitch with cartoon tombstones of his opponents. But we can't mock it."

"Twitter will allow the words 'Massacre Mitch' to trend nationally on their platform. But locks our account for posting actual threats against us," Golden added. The Louisville Courier Journal first reported on the suspension.

which showed a small crowd of protesters outside the Senate leader's Kentucky home on Monday where he was recovering from a Golden said the campaign appealed, but Twitter stood by its decision to keep the account locked until the campaign removed the video,which showed a small crowd of protesters outside the Senate leader's Kentucky home on Monday where he was recovering from a shoulder injury

In the video, a woman could be heard saying McConnell "should have broken his little raggedy, wrinkled-a-- neck." The protesters banged and rang bells as they chanted "liar," "Moscow Mitch."

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