St. Louis Radio: Talker Claims YouTube Yanked His Videos

McGraw Milhaven

KTRS 550 AM radio personality McGraw Milhaven said on Tuesday that videos of his show had been inexplicably removed from YouTube.

The shows reappeared shortly before noon on Tuesday.

Milhaven speculated that the removal was because of an interview he did with St. Louis County Police Association President Gabe Crocker, who made sharp criticism of St. Louis Rams football players who did a "Hands Up" gesture on the field on Sunday.

"We had Gabe Crocker on the show and the video was getting a ton of attention, and then all of a sudden it disappeared," Milhaven told the Post-Dispatch. "Now about 1,700 videos from our station are gone."

The removal came after Crocker said the Rams players, who did the "Hands Up" gesture in solidarity with Ferguson protesters, are "pathetic."

YouTube issued the station an email saying its videos violated their community guidelines, which prohibit "spam, scams or commercially deceptive content."