Controversial blogger Chuck Johnson has once again found himself at the center of a storm.
Johnson’s Twitter account has been suspended after he published a post early Sunday soliciting funds for the purpose of “taking out” civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, CNN’s Carol Costello reports.
The tweet on Johnson’s since-suspended account read, “Go to gotnews.com/donate if you want to give money to taking out @deray.”
McKesson (pictured above) responded to Johnson’s tweet, writing, “Yes, I take this as a serious threat.”
In a response to the suspension, Johnson wrote an email to website Re/code stating that he was “speaking metaphorically about exposing DeRay in much the same way Slate was speaking metaphorically about ‘taking out’ a Supreme Court justice.”