{"id":156887,"date":"2025-09-14T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156887\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:28:08","slug":"fox-news-brian-kilmeade-apologizes-for-saying-mentally-ill-homeless-people-should-be-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156887\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News&#8217; Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6379403917112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">apologized on Sunday<\/a> for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people in a discussion on the network last week, saying his remark was \u201cextremely callous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kilmeade\u2019s initial comment came on a \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d episode Wednesday and began getting widespread circulation online over the weekend. Kilmeade, a host of the morning show, was talking with co-hosts Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt about the Aug. 22 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlotte-stabbing-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutska-cc9ec826660468830b3f18a71e1a9aaf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska<\/a> on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>A homeless and mentally ill man, Decarlos Brown Jr., was arrested for murder, and the case received extensive attention on Fox following the release of a security video of the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was talking on \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d on Wednesday about public money spent on trying to help homeless people and suggested that those who didn\u2019t accept services offered to them should be jailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr involuntary lethal injection, or something,\u201d Kilmeade said. \u201cJust kill \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earhardt interjected, \u201cWhy did it have to get to this point?\u201d Kilmeade replied, \u201cI will say this, we\u2019re not voting for the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d weekend show Sunday, Kilmeade said that \u201cI wrongly said they should get lethal injection. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News management did not immediately return messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>An advocate for homeless people said Sunday that Kilmeade\u2019s remark had been \u201ccompletely devoid of all humanity.\u201d Christine Quinn, president and CEO of Win, a provider of shelter and services for homeless children in New York City, invited Kilmeade to volunteer in one of the organization\u2019s shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmeade\u2019s initial remark came hours before the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. An MSNBC analyst, Matthew Dowd, was <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/matthew-dowd-charlie-kirk-msnbc-9f649967c4629ce238345c71bbf22eca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired for saying on the air<\/a> that afternoon that hateful rhetoric can lead to hateful actions.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>David Bauder writes about the intersection of media and entertainment for the AP. Follow him at <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dbauder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/x.com\/dbauder<\/a> and <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dbauder.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dbauder.bsky.social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[95758,23,59805,13413,49204,95760,3071,26288,88,793,12589,694,95759,93507,3508,3,2256,1306,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,800],"class_list":{"0":"post-156887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-ainsley-earhardt","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-brian-kilmeade","11":"tag-capital-punishment","12":"tag-charlie-kirk","13":"tag-christine-quinn","14":"tag-crime","15":"tag-david-bauder","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-homelessness","19":"tag-homicide","20":"tag-lawrence-jones","21":"tag-matthew-dowd","22":"tag-nc-state-wire","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-north-carolina","25":"tag-trending-news","26":"tag-u-s-news","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa","33":"tag-washington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}