Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed
Source: AP
By DAVID BAUDER
Updated 1:21 PM CDT, September 14, 2025
Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people in a discussion on the network last week, saying his remark was extremely callous.
Kilmeades initial comment came on a Fox & Friends 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 stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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.
Jones was talking on Fox & Friends on Wednesday about public money spent on trying to help homeless people and suggested that those who didnt accept services offered to them should be jailed.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kilmeade-fox-homeless-executed-apology-bffb74e9d672b79853dc6fb8eb29afc8

Attilatheblond
(7,247 posts)Needs mental health care in a supervised facility.
Deuxcents
(23,980 posts)Attilatheblond
(7,247 posts)We the People are generally not aware of how easily our rights can be taken, merely on the say so of certain 'accredited professionals'.
underpants
(192,920 posts)
chelsea0011
(10,173 posts)Sounds more like doubling down.
blubunyip
(246 posts)we rarely saw homeless people in my town. Now you see them often sleeping in the bushes or begging. These are some sad people but they deserve help and hope and dignity. Anything else is totally inhumane. But Brian Kilmeade lacks humanity.
COL Mustard
(7,577 posts)Of course Fox will never do that, and even if they did, he'd get a job in the Administration.
sarisataka
(21,999 posts)he apologized for being callous by making the lethal injection comment.
He did NOT apologize for saying they should be killed.
RobinA
(10,419 posts)if he apologizes or not. That is like saying you want to murder your mother. There's just some things that decent people don't say, and to say them means you just aren't an OK person. Standing on stage and mocking a disabled person on camera is another.
livetohike
(23,670 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,712 posts)I'll be satisfied with you just being eaten by wild boars.
Tribetime
(6,832 posts)SWBTATTReg
(25,687 posts)And not one remark associate along w/ his remark that was thrown up w/ his ignorant remark didn't suggest more outreach to help such persons, more resources to address the increasing homeless population, more resources to help the increasing numbers of those w/o insurance, etc.
We all know what the republicans/gop stand for, All ME and nothing for no one else. Nothing!
Jilly_in_VA
(13,018 posts)If Matt Dowd got fired for what he said about Charlie Kirk, which I thought was relatively innocuous (and also true), then Kelmeade should be bounced out on his azz for this one.
C Moon
(13,173 posts)This Fixed news bastard makes as much as $9 million a year w a net worth of $27 million. And what does he think of the less fortunate?: shoot them.
He can apologize all day and night, but we all know this is how they think.
cstanleytech
(27,940 posts)angrychair
(11,121 posts)Guy is fucking twisted. There is no apology. He meant that shit.
What an asshole.
usonian
(20,465 posts)No Freudian slip. These creeps believe in eugenics and ethnic cleansing.
Mass Murder of the Aged & Infirm
http://learning-from-history.de/International/Posting/8662
hadEnuf
(3,395 posts)n/t
Wicked Blue
(8,231 posts)and THEN executed.
Quanto Magnus
(1,253 posts)he just knows it wasn't a good look and it trying to weasel out of it.
He should be fired.
calimary
(87,817 posts)He did it cuz he had to. And took his own sweet time about it, also.
AND it took him til Sunday to apologize - for an offense committed the Wednesday before. Four days late!
What he should have done is: to jump in at the end of that same Wednesdays show and offer an apology right then and there. Instead of four days later.
Paladin
(31,600 posts)republianmushroom
(21,357 posts)for the American Gestapo would say. But it was Faux news.
thought crime
(781 posts)Breaking News: They are fascists.
DrFunkenstein
(8,832 posts)Psychopathic traits include superficial charm, grandiosity, manipulation, pathological lying, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow emotions, callousness, and a lack of empathy.
How many of these traits fit Kilmeade? Other than his total lack of charm, I mean.
Pompoy
(241 posts)WhatTheFlux
(44 posts)electric_blue68
(23,845 posts)Randomthought
(925 posts)Manyofthrhomless are veterans you piece ofcrap!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,415 posts)tulipsandroses
(7,925 posts)people. Yet he gets to keep his job?? Its disgusting.
Did I not read something recently about the trump admin wanting to look at social media to see who says terrible things about Americans. Well here you go, live on tv. He is talking about Americans.
tonekat
(2,345 posts)creeksneakers2
(7,807 posts)Justice Brandeis
(286 posts)A mealy-mouthed, staff written half-apology and we're all just expected to move on. No consequences?
Rhiannon12866
(242,775 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,341 posts)... of money in veterans' health expenses.
This would please Trump, Musk, Miller, etc.
HarryM
(427 posts)Fire him and charge him with inciting murder.
If he was a Democrat, they would make sure that he, at the very least, resign.
This was not even an actual apology, it was a little aside.
It was not "extremely callous," it was criminal.
Fire him, sue him into poverty, and make him homeless.
NewEnglandAutumn
(238 posts)demand he be fired
NNadir
(36,580 posts)hadEnuf
(3,395 posts)People are being fired outright from their jobs over comments about an extremist right-wing pod caster they made on-line. And not just fired from MSNBC either.
This is complete BS and Fox needs to be held accountable for fomenting violence.
Aristus
(70,852 posts)Or, because he supports Trump, does he not care about them, either?
Skittles
(167,376 posts)and he QUALIFIED it - you know, like, maybe SOME homeless folk are somewhat less deserving of the death penalty
Kilmeade is a DISGUSTING POS.