FOX News host Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying homeless people should be killed

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/14/brian-kilmeade-
apologizes-saying-homeless-people-should-be-killed/86150765007/

A FOX News host has apologized after he said homeless people who refuse 
help should be executed by the government.

Brian Kilmeade made his original comments on Sept. 10, the same day 
conservative figure Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah during a campus 
appearance. Kilmeade and colleagues on "Fox & Friends" had been talking 
about the Aug. 22 murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, 
North Carolina, by a man authorities say was mentally ill but not 
institutionalized.

When a co-host said mentally ill and homeless people should be more 
aggressively detained and forcibly treated, Kilmeade added: "Or 
involuntary injection or something. Just kill 'em."

Speaking on Fox on Sept. 14, Kilmeade apologized for what he called a 
"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," he said.

The United States is undergoing a significant change in how it addresses 
visible homelessness, following President Donald Trump's order that 
service providers receiving federal funding must focus first on locking up 
people with drug or mental health challenges, which some homeless service 
providers fear will demonize the homeless.

Trump has long criticized how the United States manages homelessness, and 
argues public streets aren't safe for either the homeless or residents. 
The president has deployed the National Guard to Washington, DC, in part 
to remove homeless encampments around the city.

"Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither 
compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens," Trump said in a July 24 
order shifting the federal approach to homelessness. "The federal 
government and the states have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed 
programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, leaving other 
citizens vulnerable to public safety threats."

While conservatives often complain that services for the homeless have 
cost billions of dollars over the decades, providers note that the money 
is a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed. They also have 
suggested that such complaints lack a nuanced understanding that the vast 
majority of people are only temporarily homeless and not suffering from 
either mental illness or drug use, and that the best way to end 
homelessness is to help people get homes.

Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat representing Northern Virginia, called 
Kilmeade's original comments "sick." Other liberal critics noted that 
while conservatives are angry at people who celebrated Kirk's death, 
Kilmeade received little criticism for calling for extrajudicial killings 
of American citizens.

"America's homeless population includes over a million children and tens 
of thousands of veterans, many of whom served in Iraq or Afghanistan," 
Beyer posted on social media. "Nobody deserves to be murdered by the 
government for mental illness or poverty."

Last year, the annual nationwide assessment found that about 770,000 
people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January. That 
number includes people living in hotels or shelters, as well as 5,200 
people still displaced by the 2023 Maui wildfires.


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