David Drew Pinsky, best known as Dr Drew, admittedly had a very strange reaction to the video when he saw the Facebook live video in which four young adults kidnap and torture a disabled man

The story of the four young adults who kidnapped and tortured a disabled man on Facebook live is sweeping the country.

However David Drew Pinsky, best known as Dr Drew, admittedly had a very unusual reaction to the video when he saw it.

In a video on TMZ, he says: 'I had a very strange reaction where I felt bad for the kids perpetrating it, I really felt horrible for them.'

He went on to clarify that he felt terrible for the victim, and said that nothing excuses what they did.

Dr Drew said in the video: 'What's going wrong in those kids' lives that they could think not only that that's funny, but that everybody else would think it was funny and that it would be OK to stream it.

'Their lives are going to be over, we've failed them, we have failed them.'

He later explains to TMZ that he thinks parents have to be more 'on top of' kids and set firmer limits in certain respects without being aggressive with them.

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He said: 'I'm afraid we lose track of that line and end up being aggressive with our kids and then having aggressive kids.

'I mean if we were aggressive with a dog and that dog ended up biting people would we be surprised?'

Dr Drew was referring to the Facebook live video in which four kids torture a disabled man after kidnapping him in a McDonald's in Chicago.

The video shows the victim being beaten, cut with a knife, burned with cigarettes and at one point, a piece of his scalp was cut off. The gang forced the disabled man to drink toilet water and kiss the floor, according to police

Members of the alleged torture gang (l-r) Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and her sister Tanisha Covington, 24, have all been charged with two hate crimes in addition to other charges

The video shows the victim being beaten, cut with a knife, burned with cigarettes and at one point, a piece of his scalp was cut off.

The gang forced the disabled man to drink toilet water and kiss the floor, according to police.

The suspects also allegedly stuffed a sock into his mouth, taped his mouth shut and bound his hands with a belt.

One of the four accused can be heard screaming, 'f*** Donald Trump, f*** white people' at the victim.