Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggested using “involuntary lethal injection” to kill homeless people with mental illness during a September 10, 2025 segment of “Fox & Friends”[1]. The comments came during a discussion about the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a homeless person with schizophrenia in North Carolina[2].
After co-host Lawrence Jones argued that homeless people should be forced to accept help or face jail time, Kilmeade interjected: “Or involuntary lethal injection… or something. Just kill 'em”[3]. His co-hosts briefly acknowledged the comment before continuing their discussion[4].
The remarks sparked widespread condemnation. Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia tweeted: “America’s homeless population includes over a million children and tens of thousands of veterans, many of whom served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Nobody deserves to be murdered by the government for mental illness or poverty”[1:1].
California Governor Gavin Newsom responded by quoting Proverbs 21:13: “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered”[3:1].
The Independent - Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says 'just kill ‘em’ about mentally ill homeless people ↩︎ ↩︎
Rolling Stone - Fox Host Says to 'Just Kill ‘Em’ While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help ↩︎
HuffPost - 'Just Kill ‘Em’: Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People ↩︎ ↩︎
Media Matters - Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them” ↩︎
All people who were in the room and didn’t voice a protest should never be hired in media again.
Time to read up on Aktion T4, the Nazi campaign to mass murder people with disabilities and mental illness. During Aktion T4, the Nazis developed the techniques later used in concentration camps.
Kilmeade’s comment is a Nazi comment.
Also, I don’t know Don Beyer and maybe the tweet is meant in good faith, but arguing “we shouldn’t kill the homeless because some of them are children or veterans” is highly problematic, too.
Step 1 of Nazi mass murder: ✓
So this guy was sacked, right?
Just like the MSNBC dude who expressed schadenfraude OFF THE AIR over Kirk’s murder, right?Probably got a promotion
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade endorsed euthanizing unhoused people suffering from mental health issues who decline getting help.
Why do journalists do this sort of thing where a guy will literally say that we should murder homeless people and then they try to dress down their language to the point of dishonesty? Euthanasia is when you help something die that is in horrible unyielding pain. Not when you kill something because you don’t know how to take care of it.
Journalists are an endangered breed, Fox certainly doesn’t employ any
Maybe “I was doing what the guy on TV suggested” will become a legal defense for some.
Can we call authoritarianism a form of mental illness?
Sadly Trump isn’t homeless.
