As America recoiled at the actions of four black teenagers who beat a white mentally handicapped man while streaming their heinous crime on Facebook Live, CNN’s Don Lemon refused to define their actions as “evil.”
The teenagers kidnapped the victim from a Chicago suburb and took him to an apartment on Chicago’s West Side. They can be heard yelling “f**k Donald Trump” and “f**k white people” as they beat and tortured the man for as long as 48 hours.
https://twitter.com/nia4_trump/status/816945108616675328
Appearing as a guest on “CNN Tonight,” The Daily Caller’s Matt K. Lewis said in no uncertain terms that the act was evil.
“At the end of the day, you just try to wrap your head around evil,“ Lewis said. “That’s what this is: it’s evil, it’s brutality, it’s man’s inhumanity to man.”
But Lemon, fresh off his drunken New Year’s Eve escapade, was not willing to go there… or even call the incident a hate crime, saying the police have not done so.
“I don’t think it’s evil,” Lemon insisted. “I think these are young people and they have bad home training.”
Home training? C’mon.
To steer away from the actions of the four black teenagers, he reiterated his focus on whoever was raising them.
“I have no idea who’s raising these young people, because no one I know on earth, 17 years old or 70 years old, would ever think of treating another person like this.”
As might be expected, Lemon was eviscerated on social media — here’s a sampling of responses from Twitter:
@donlemon @CNN Bad home training? Are you effing kidding me? How far are you willing to take your own narrative? Discipable at any level.
— Andy Clark (@poof0017) January 5, 2017
@poof0017 @donlemon @CNN
What Don did New Year’s Eve was bad home training— Real Mr Breeze.ru (@HydroTech12) January 5, 2017
.@DonLemon still drunk: CNN’s Don Lemon Hesitates to Call Chicago Torture Video ‘Evil’ Blames Bad Parenting Instead https://t.co/wqJPueybXn
— Jim R (@Bassmaster12) January 5, 2017
“Bad home training” @donlemon? They didn’t steal a cookie before dinner, they kidnapped and tortured a man while screaming fuck white people pic.twitter.com/eO01bnyeld
— Just Call Me Mister (@MisterMetokur) January 5, 2017
Yeah they just beat, cut and tortured a special needs kid because of his race. That’s not evil at all. @MisterMetokur @donlemon
— Shitlords Never Die (@Ridnarhtim) January 5, 2017
Video: IDIOT Don Lemon of @CNN says racist torture of white special needs man is just “bad home training” https://t.co/uYUDgATj9p
— Amy Moreno (@VivaLaAmes) January 5, 2017
“Bad home training” kinda like Dylan Roof or Charles Manson right @donlemon ??
— ZigDuck (@ziggytour) January 5, 2017
@nia4_trump @bakedalaska @donlemon @CNN “Bad home training” is chewing with your mouth open. Kidnapping and torturing is evil.
— Ben P (@freedomanddogs) January 5, 2017
@poof0017 @donlemon @CNN I’m curious what he would have called it had the suspects been white and the victim black
— Sandy (@s_j67) January 5, 2017
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