During a May 3 segment on the attempted car bomb attack on Times Square, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said he “has the utmost respect for the NYPD, and their investigative unit.” But Kilmeade later stated, while showing security video footage of the a man who the police think may have been involved:

KILMEADE: What I was surprised at is right away, they say he's a 40ish-year-old white guy. To tell you the truth, I'm looking at that video. If they're look at the same video we're looking at, I don't know if they are just placating the public. That doesn't look like a white guy.

Why would Kilmeade develop a sudden, and inexplicable distrust for the NYPD's investigative methods? Given his extensive and enthusiastic history of advocating for racial profiling of Muslims, it may be that he has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that a suspect in a terrorist plot might be white. It seems that Kilmeade's dedication to the idea that only Muslims are capable of attacking us is strong enough to make him wonder if the police are endangering an investigation just for the purpose of “placating the public.”