“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade floated a stunning suggestion on the show this weekfor dealing with homeless people who refuse to get help for mental health issues.
Kilmeade’s idea? Kill them.
He entered that into the discussion with co-hosts Ainsley Earhart and Lawrence Jones while discussing the tragic fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukranian refugee, on a North Carolina train recently.
The trio discussed the incident and made the case that the suspect, who had a long list of arrests and was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia, should have been taken off the streets a long time ago.
“This is happening all across the country, and it’s a money issue,” Jones said before adding that a lot of homeless people “don’t want” help.
“You can’t give ‘em a chance,” he added. “Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.”
Kilmeade then floated his idea.
“Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something,” he said. “Just kill ‘em.”
Kilmeade’s comment, which was given on Wednesday’s show, drew rebuke across social media.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) shared it and wrote, “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.”
Billy Baldwin shared the clip and wrote, “Brian Kilmeade must apologize or be fired.”
What Brian Kilmeade said about the homeless on national TV was abhorrent,” Silvia Ramirez wrote. “Brian Kilmeade sees the homeless as the enemy. He sees people who have lost it all as lesser than. He views the homeless as yesterday’s trash. The inhumanity of his words. Brian Kilmeade should be fired.”
“America’s homeless population includes over a million children and tens of thousands of veterans, many of whom served in Iraq or Afghanistan,” Virginia Rep. Don Beyer (D) wrote on X. “Nobody deserves to be murdered for mental illness or poverty. These Fox hosts are calling for mass murder — it’s sick.”
Kilmeade has yet to address the uproar and the calls for him to be fired.
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