“Fox & Friends” co-anchor Brian Kilmeade apologized on-air Sunday, days after saying that mentally ill unhoused people should be given “involuntary lethal injection.”
He made that comment during a discussion with fellow anchors Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt on Wednesday as they were talking about the slaying of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte.
“A lot of them don’t want to take the programs. A lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary,” Jones said. “You can’t give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we’re gonna give you, or you decide that you’re going to be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.”
Then, Kilmeade jumped in: “Or, involuntary lethal injection — or something. Just kill them.”
But on Sunday,