Herman Cain’s rabbit-shooting video briefly removed from YouTube (VIDEO)

An anti-tax-code video from former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain that shows a rabbit being shot was briefly removed from YouTube today after the video-sharing website’s moderators flagged it for review, the Los Angeles Times reported.

In the video, a young girl catapults a rabbit – who, she says, symbolizes small business – into the air, where a man with a shotgun – symbolizing the current tax code – shoots it. The rabbit blows apart in a bloody mess. The girl asks, “Any questions?” as the shotgun-wielding man stand ominously behind her.

The video is an ad for Cain’s new website, SickofStimulus.com.

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YouTube posted the following explanation when it took the video down, according to Politico: “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content. Sorry about that.”

Cain complained on Twitter that the removal of his ad was a violation of free speech, the LA Times reported.

YouTube soon reposted the video, and a company spokesperson told Politico, ”Occasionally, a video flagged by users or identified by our spam team is mistakenly taken down. When this is brought to our attention, we review the content and take appropriate action, including reinstating videos that had been removed.”

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