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ARTICLE VIEW:
Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade says comment about killing mentally ill
homeless people an ‘extremely callous remark’
By Brian Stelter, CNN
Updated:
7:26 PM EDT, Sun September 14, 2025
Source: CNN
After shocking many by saying mentally ill homeless people should be
put to death, Fox News morning host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday
for what he called an “extremely callous remark.”
Kilmeade’s mea culpa came one day after his original comment —
“just kill ‘em” — went viral across multiple social media
sites.
The “Fox & Friends” segment aired Wednesday morning, but it
didn’t seem to garner widespread attention until Saturday morning,
when it was picked up by Fox News critics such as Aaron Rupar.
The clip, labeled “Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless
people,” had garnered more than 20 million views on X by Sunday
afternoon.
Commenters immediately called for the conservative network, which has a
reputation for almost never apologizing, to take action against
Kilmeade.
In the Wednesday segment, Kilmeade and the other hosts were talking
about last month’s murder of in Charlotte, North Carolina. The
suspect in the killing struggled with mental illness and was living in
a homeless shelter, the suspect’s mother told CNN.
Co-host Lawrence Jones said taxpayers have given “billions of dollars
to mental health and the homeless population,” but “a lot of them
don’t want to take the programs, a lot of them don’t want to get
the help that is necessary.”
“You can’t give them a choice,” Jones continued. “Either you
take the resources that we’re going to give you … or you decide
that you are going to be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to
be now.”
That’s what prompted Kilmeade to add, “Or involuntary lethal
injection or something. Just kill ‘em.”
The condemnation was swift once the clip went viral on Saturday.
Political figures such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom weighed in.
(Newsom replied to the video clip with a proverb: “Whoever closes his
ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be
answered.”)
Christine Quinn, the CEO of WIN, which runs shelters and transitional
housing in New York City, called Kilmeade’s rhetoric “completely
devoid of all humanity” and said it “only serves to divide and
inflame.”
Quinn said in a statement that she welcomed a dialogue with Kilmeade
about the issues. Or “better yet,” she said, “come volunteer in
one of our shelters and see the face of homelessness for yourself —
we could always use the help.”
Kilmeade appeared remotely on Sunday’s “Fox & Friends Weekend,”
and Jones tossed to him, knowing Kilmeade had some cleaning up to do.
Kilmeade said that on Wednesday “we were discussing the murder of
Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte and how to stop these kinds of attacks by
homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or
jailing such people so they cannot attack again.”
“Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal
injections,” 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.”
Fox News also publicized the apology on its website, saying Kilmeade
“admits fault,” perhaps in an attempt to defuse any further
fallout.
A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
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