Owens launched a fundraising campaign on the website on Saturday to raise money for Michael Dykes⁠—the founder of Parkside Cafe in Birmingham, Alabama⁠—after he sent a text message to bar co-owner Robert Bagwell and an employee on Friday criticizing Floyd and protesters, according to AL.com.

In the text message, Dykes also pushed to implement a “protest tax” at the bar and suggested employees who participated in demonstrations should resign.

The GoFundMe campaign quickly picked up traction, reportedly raising more than $16,000 less than four hours after it went live. GoFundMe took down the page the next day and also suspended Owen’s account for violating the company’s “terms of service.”

In an emailed statement to Newsweek on Sunday, GoFundMe confirmed it had “suspended the account associated with Candace Owens and the GoFundMe campaign has been removed because of a repeated pattern of inflammatory statements that spread hate, discrimination, intolerance and falsehoods against the black community at a time of profound national crisis.”

“These actions violate our terms of service,” the company added. “Furthermore, the Parkside Cafe has clearly condemned the comments that initially led to this campaign.”

Owens took to Twitter after the campaign was removed and said it had raised $205,000 in a few hours before the company decided to “halt” the campaign. She told her followers that the funds raised thus far will be released to the cafe.

In a series of tweets, the conservative pundit condemned the crowdfunding website for what she called a “blatant form of discrimination” over the decision to remove the page. Owens also claimed that there was “NOTHING intolerant or violent about raising funds to help a conservative business owner.”

“Once again, conservatives and Trump supporters need to adapt to a world that tells us that our very existence is unacceptable,” she added. “That our ideas, thoughts, and now even our charitable efforts are unacceptable. That threatening, boycotting, and cancelling us is okay.”

GoFundMe confirmed to Newsweek on Sunday afternoon that they will work with the cafe’s staff to transfer the funds raised on their behalf."

“It’s important to remember that when money is raised on behalf of another individual or organization, the funds are safely held by our payment processor, and only transferred directly to the beneficiary of the campaign,” the company said. “In this case, the money is safely held and will only be released to the Parkside Cafe. If a donor would like a refund, we will immediately process that refund request.”

Owen’s decision to start the fundraising campaign came after Dykes’ text message had been shared with other bar employees, causing three to resign.

“We should go up one or two dollars on everything until June 10th. Call it a protest tax because all the idiots that went to the protests are responsible for us not being able to open normal hours,” Dykes said in the text, according to AL.com. “Any employees that went or are going should resign. Mr. Floyd was a thug, didn’t deserve to die but honoring a thug is irresponsible.”

Lacey King, one of the employees who stepped down over the text, also leaked Dyke’s remarks to Facebook. Although King later removed the post, his remarks had already been screenshotted and re-shared online by other users. It quickly prompted widespread backlash and calls for locals to boycott the establishment.