Twitter Locks McConnell’s Account Over Video Showing Protesters Threatening Senator

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks off the Senate floor after making comments about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 7, 2019. Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters

Twitter locked one of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) accounts on Aug. 7 after it posted a video showing protesters outside the majority leader’s home in Louisville threatening him.

A Black Lives Matter activist was among those outside. Chanelle Helms said that McConnell should be stabbed in the heart and at another point said she wished he had broken his neck when he fell over the weekend outside the house.