The “Fox & Friends” coanfrerion, Brian Kilmeade, apologized on Sunday for the comments he made last week that he suggested to use involuntary lethal injections to get homeless people with mental illnesses outside the streets.
Kilmeade's comments occurred during a discussion last Wednesday about “Fox & Friends” about the stabbed death of August 22, a 23 -year -old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, on a light rail train in Charlotte, NC
The alleged murderer of Zarutska, decar them Brown Jr., is a homeless man with a long criminal history and is a paranoid schizophrenic, according to his family.
The attack on Zarutska was captured in security cameras and circulated widely online. The incident has caused a national debate on public security policy and the criminal sentence.
The issue led to the “Fox & Friends” Laurence Jones coanfrerion to say that billions of dollars have been spent on programs to take care of the homeless and mentally ill, but many of those who afflict resist.
“Many of them don't want to take programs,” Jones said. “Many of them do not want to get the necessary help. You cannot give them the option. Or take the resources that we will give you or decide that you must be locked in jail.”
Kilmeade added: “Or involuntary lethal injection or something, just kill them.”
A clip of Kilmeade's comments began to circulate widely on X on Saturday.
“I apologize for that extremely insensitive comments,” Kilmeade said during the Morning program Sunday. “Obviously, I am aware that not all mentally ill and homeless people act as the author in North Carolina did and that many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.”
Many online commentators indicated that Kilmeade's comments evoked the extermination of people with mental and disabled illnesses that was authorized by Adolf Hitler in 1939. The euthanasia program of the German Chancellor killed more than 250,000 people ahead of the Holocaust.
For now, Kilmeade has avoided the fate of political analyst Matthew Dowd, who lost his role as a taxpayer in MSNBC after commenting on Wednesday's death on the death of the right -wing political activist Charlie Kirk.
Dowd told MSNBC presenter Katy Tur, that “hate thoughts lead to hate words, which then lead to hate actions.”
Dowd, once a political strategist for President George W. Bush, described Kirk as a divisive figure “that constantly drives this type of hate discourse or aimed at certain groups.”
The angry reaction on social networks was immediate, indicating that many dressed Dowd's comments as suggesting that Kirk's incendiary comments' history led to shooting.
Rebecca Kutler, president of MSNBC, issued an apology and cut ties with Dowd.
Dowd also apologized in a publication on Bluesky. “I had no intention of blaming Kirk for this horrible attack,” he said.
MSNBC Parent Comcast executives sent a company memorandum on Friday citing Dowd's dismissal and told employees “that we have to do better.”
