CNN host Don Lemon has said that he doesn't believe the Chicago youths who kidnapped, bound and physically and mentally abused a disabled man on Facebook Live were 'evil'.

Lemon was hosting a group interview about the horrific abuse on Wednesday when one of his interviewees - journalist Matt Lewis - said of the youth's actions: 'It's evil, that's what this is. It's evil, it's brutality, it's man's inhumanity to man.'

'I don't think it's evil, I don't think it's evil. I think these are young people and I think they have bad home training,' Lemon said, according to Breitbart.

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'Not evil': Don Lemon said on Wednesday night that he didn't think the four Chicago youths who allegedly tied up and tortured a mentally disabled man on Facebook Live were evil

Blame: Lemon blamed the parents of the youths - three 18 and one 24 years old - who were arrested when footage of the terrified man was streamed on Facebook Tuesday

'I think that - and I say, who is raising these young people?' he continued. 'I have no idea who’s raising these young people.

'Because no one I know on Earth who is 17 years old or 70 years old would ever think of treating another person like that.

'It is inhumane. And you wonder, at 18 years old, where is your parent? Where’s your guardian?'

Chicago police announced Wednesday that three 18-year-olds and a 24-year-old - two of them girls - had been arrested after broadcasting the alleged kidnapping and torture of the mentally disabled man.

Arrested: Brittany Covington (left) and Tesfaye Cooper (right), both 18, were arrested Wed. Police say they were two of the four suspects accused of hate crimes, among others

Charged: Jordan Hill (left), 18, and Tanisha Covinton (right), 24, were also charged with hate crimes. In the video someone can be heard saying 'f**k Trump' and 'f**k white people'

The victim was a white man in his teens or early twenties. All of the suspects are black.

They filmed themselves kicking and punching the bound and gagged man, and cutting his hair until his scalp bled.

Someone can be heard in the footage yelling 'f*** Donald Trump. F*** white people' while the two men express their hopes that the video will go viral.

One of the panelists on Lemon's show, Democratic strategist Symone Sanders, blamed Donald Trump's election campaign for the youths' behavior.

Bleeding: The victim was seen cowering in a corner with his arms tied and mouth taped shut. He was filmed being kicked, punched and cut on his scalp with a knife (circled)

'We cannot sit here and ignore that for at least the last year, on very public display, the worst parts of America have been brought from the fringe to the mainstream,' Sanders said.

She added: 'When this inflammatory rhetoric is out there, when someone is repeatedly telling you your community is the worst of the worst, it brings out the worst of the worst in people.'

Lemon dismissed her comments: 'These young people probably never watched the news, probably have no idea really who Donald Trump really is, no idea really the political process...

Torture: In another video that surfaced Wednesday night, the torturers force the victim to drink water from a toilet

'If they don't understand the ramifications of tying someone up and beating them and putting it on Facebook Live, then they certainly don't understand the ramifications of a presidential election.'

The youths have been identified as Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; and sisters Brittany and Tanisha Covington, who are 18 and 24, respectively.

They were arrested Wednesday. The victim had escaped and was helped after being seen wandering in a Chicago street.

All four suspects face charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery and a hate crime.

Hill, who was acquainted with the victim, faces an additional charge of robbery and possession of a stolen vehicle.