From: pelle@svans.los

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for saying days
earlier that people who are experiencing homelessness and mental
illnesses should be executed – remarks that prompted calls for him to be fired.

The host said his comments on Wednesday were “extremely callous”.

Kilmeade’s about-face came amid a climate in which people across the US
are either being fired from or disciplined at their jobs amid a
coordinated effort to clamp down on commentary that is critical about
Turning Point USA’s executive director, Charlie Kirk, who was shot to
death at an event in Utah on Wednesday.

Mere hours before the conservative political activist was killed, while
on the rightwing Fox News program Fox & Friends, Kilmeade and two other
hosts were discussing the killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a
Ukrainian woman who was fatally stabbed on a commuter train in North
Carolina in August.

The man charged with killing Zarutska at random in Charlotte had
reportedly been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had 14 prior criminal
arrests. Surveillance video of the Zarutska’s killing went viral online.

During the Fox and Friends appearance on Wednesday discussing Zarutska’s death, co-host Lawrence Jones said unhoused people with mental illness
should either accept the publicly funded programs to help in their
situation or be jailed.

“Involuntary lethal injection or something,” Kilmeade responded to
Jones. “Just kill ’em.”

Kilmeade faced widespread backlash for his comments. Among those to
respond was California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, who on
social media posted a biblical verse reading: “Whoever closes his ear to
the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.”

On Sunday morning, during an appearance with Jones on Fox & Friends
Weekends, Kilmeade apologized for his idea of killing those who are
unhoused and mentally ill.

“I wrongly said they should get lethal injections” on Wednesday,
Kilmeade said. “I apologize for that extremely callous remark. I am
obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina – and that so many homeless people
deserve our empathy and compassion.”

Unlike others who were deemed to have made offensive comments about
Kirk’s death, Kilmeade remained employed by Fox News.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/fox-brian-kilmeade-apology-homelessness-comments

Brian was this close to getting a tent as a going away present.

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