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” ↩︎
“We support our troops.”
I knew this was a shit timeline, but not “Street Trash IRL” bad.
Edit: Street Trash is a movie where a mysterious liquor starts “dissolving” the homeless when they drink it.
Remember the famous speech by Jesus: Involuntary lethal injection is A-Ok if it’s for homeless people, but never involuntary inject a racist-sexist-hateful right wing figure with a bullet, that’s not cool.
It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate involuntary bullet, the male body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
I actually prefer this honesty from them. We all know they already thought this and worse. Let them speak their minds and show us how repugnant they are. They’re nazis, let it show.
i think brian kilmeade should be beaten to death with a brick like the rabid dog he is
That’s a bit harsh on dogs
Thoughts & prayers for the brick
Bet he’s not fired
Zero chance he gets fired. He didn’t go off script. He just read the brackets.
It’s not a call for violence, so that’s cool beans
But they get upset when we call them Nazis.
Their worldview can not exist without victimhood
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is now openly calling for a systematic, government program to murder an entire large demographic group that makes them uncomfortable.
Something something political violence.
Which is fine because he wasn’t drawing attention to the known facts that Charlie Kirk was a divisive fascist and the president is sitting on evidence that he, the president, is a pedophile.
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.
Unfortunately some people have sympathy so selective that unless you can tug on very specific heartstrings, they will never give a damn about other people.
They are cynically playing the sheep, they have no heartstrings.
And the sheep are led into an alternate reality where the moral thing is to follow these cynical influencers.
It did not happen overnight, 30 years of fox working on previous propaganda has step by step brought their sheep to support fascism.
What if the sheep are also cynical and happily enjoy the benefits while the leaders shield them from blame and bad conscience?
Then they are cynical influencers too, just less effective ones.
Half the party faithful might be mostly sheep, half mostly cynical. But that is my guess idk.
Just remember, if you’re working class you’re never more than three bad months away from homelessness
Actually, I think you are being optimistic. Probably 2 months considering the debt most people have just to eat regularly.
Closer to 1 month-a couple weeks.
Reminder this guy 16 years ago used overt white supremacist language on Fox and Friends and still kept his job.
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”
Holy shit that is gruesome even for Gruesome Newsom
So he’s admitting that he can’t sleep at night from the attacks he’s made on the homeless, or does he have 0 self awareness? Bonus, even; he’s a spineless demagogue.
Someone should tweet that right back at “Round The Homeless Up and Imprison Them” Newsom
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.
so i reckon they like the fact someone euthanized charlie kirk?
Journalists are an endangered breed, Fox certainly doesn’t employ any
They’re not talking about the language of the Fox presenters. They’re talking about the journalists who report on what the Fox presenters said.
They view homeless people as less than human and thus use the same wording as they would about an animal. Convenience euthanasia is when you just kill an animal because you don’t want it anymore, but it is still called euthanasia.
I guess what made me find this weaselly language especially sickening is I have long criticized the tendency of people to refer to killing inconvenient animals as “euthanasia” and I would usually ask people if they could imagine calling doing the same thing to people “euthanasia“. Well, I guess this person is happy to.
imagine calling doing the same thing to people
In the this case, they don’t consider them people. The reaction would be entirely different if you were to suggest that someone like Charlie Kirk was “euthanized”
News orgs, and frankly many public institutions, seem to be lliability averse to a fault. My guess is journalists have generally been instructed to use passive language to avoid libel lawsuits due to the expense of settlement or counsel fees.
Passive language has become so common in journalism these days, and the far right terrorist cohort realizes the vocal minority bad faith pearl clutching schtick works well enough that they continue to threaten litigation against objective truth regularly. It’s Trump’s MO, and I assume it works because those being sued are terrified his base will be out for blood if he doesn’t get his way.
The more the news orgs settle and normalize this shit, the more inertia there is to get back to reality. It’s maddening, tbh.
Why do journalists do this sort of thing
They are professionals and write however they are paid to write.
Why do journalists do this sort of thing
FOX has always said it’s entertainment, not News. They use that defence in court cases. They’re not journalists, they’re entertainers.
to be clear I’m quoting the Rolling Stones article that was linked
