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Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says ‘just kill ‘em’ about mentally ill homeless people

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Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says ‘just kill ‘em’ about mentally ill homeless people - Lemmy

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]. 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 [https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-host-kill-homeless-b2826035.html] [^2]: Rolling Stone - Fox Host Says to 'Just Kill ‘Em’ While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brian-kilmeade-fox-kill-homeless-mental-health-issues-1235426948/] [^3]: HuffPost - 'Just Kill ‘Em’: Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/just-kill-em-fox-host-makes-shocking-comment-on-homeless-people_uk_68c6500de4b0812df0e8fd28] [^4]: Media Matters - Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them” [https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-host-mentally-ill-people-who-commit-crimes-just-kill-them]

Zerush Sep 14, 2025

ExtremeDullard Sep 14, 2025

So this guy was sacked, right?
Just like the MSNBC dude who expressed schadenfraude OFF THE AIR over Kirk's murder, right?

Luouth Sep 14, 2025

Probably got a promotion

morphballganon Sep 14, 2025

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?

Zerush Sep 14, 2025

Sadly Trump isn’t homeless.

TheEgoBot Sep 14, 2025

Idk, he does live in government housing while I’m out here paying rent, hardly seems fair

bloup Sep 14, 2025

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 someone die who is in horrible unyielding pain when you kill something because you don’t know how to take care of it.

Barabas [he/him]Sep 14, 2025

They view homeless people as less than human and thus use the same wording you do about euthanising an animal. Convenience euthanasia is when you just kill an animal because you don’t want it anymore, but it is still called euthanasia.

bloup Sep 14, 2025

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.

ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]Sep 14, 2025

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”

wurzelgummidge Sep 14, 2025

Journalists are an endangered breed, Fox certainly doesn’t employ any

floofloof Sep 14, 2025

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.

we is doomed!Sep 14, 2025

Why do journalists do this sort of thing

FOX has always said it’s entertainment, not News. They use that defence in court cases.

bloup Sep 14, 2025

to be clear I’m quoting the Rolling Stones article that was linked

RidgeDweller Sep 14, 2025

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.

plyth Sep 14, 2025

Why do journalists do this sort of thing

They are professionals and write however they are paid to write.

☂️-Sep 14, 2025

so i reckon they like the fact someone euthanized charlie kirk?

unwarlikeExtortion Sep 14, 2025

Step 1 of Nazi mass murder: ✓

Bonifratz Sep 14, 2025

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.

Aktion T4 - Wikipedia

Rudee Sep 14, 2025

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.

hector Sep 14, 2025

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.

plyth Sep 14, 2025

What if the sheep are also cynical and happily enjoy the benefits while the leaders shield them from blame and bad conscience?

hector Sep 14, 2025

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.

glimmer_twin [he/him]Sep 14, 2025

“We deplore violence”

Also me:

ideonek Sep 14, 2025

All people who were in the room and didn't voice a protest should never be hired in media again.

QuoVadisHomines Sep 14, 2025

Reminder this guy 16 years ago used overt white supremacist language on Fox and Friends and still kept his job.

barnaclebutt Sep 14, 2025

Odd, I kinda feel the same way about Brian Kilmeades.

zergtoshi Sep 14, 2025

Imagine him introducing himself as “I’m Brian, Kill Me…” and before he gets to finish the sentence, you do him the favour!

Corkyskog Sep 14, 2025

For some reason I am imagining this as an anime scene and I don’t even watch anime.

redchert Sep 14, 2025

He clearly wants to be killed by ades.

PolandIsAStateOfMind Sep 14, 2025

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

Lenins_Sabocat Sep 14, 2025

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.

AngryCommieKender Sep 14, 2025

Someone should tweet that right back at Round The Homeless Up and Imprison them Newsom

zergtoshi Sep 14, 2025

If anyone can call for murder of anyone simply for being inconvenient, how long until people call for the murder of people like Brian Kilmeade?
Do the Brians seriously not see that coming?
Do those fucktards really think their opponents will forever try to stay on the moral high ground?
The future may hold some surprises for them, but not the kind of surprise they will like.

roux [they/them, xe/xem]Sep 14, 2025

I knew it was gonna piss me off but I still watched it.

Suggesting slaughtering hundreds of thousands of unhoused people? Hell yeah!

Laughing at Charli Kirk getting smoked? But he had a family!!!

july Sep 14, 2025

Themselves included?

FoundFootFootage78 Sep 14, 2025

Newsom is in no position to criticize Kilmeade’s abhorrent views.

nightlily Sep 14, 2025

I was about to say, didn’t he destroy a homeless camp as a photo-op?

LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]Sep 14, 2025

lol as a photo op? try as public policy

Werbert Sep 14, 2025

What a cunt.

NoodlePoint Sep 14, 2025

All of them on that newschannel are cunts.

BarneyPiccolo Sep 14, 2025

The Conservative Propaganda Machine is now openly calling for a systematic, government program to murder an entire large demographic group that makes them uncomfortable.

MasterBlaster Sep 16, 2025

And in response to one of their own killing him, the administration is about to embark on a campaign to cancel, jail, or deport all liberal, progressive, and leftist organizations like the ACLU - because they all support violence against conservatives, a bald-faced lie.

rizzothesmall Sep 14, 2025

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.

obre Sep 14, 2025

Just remember, if you’re working class you’re never more than three bad months away from homelessness

MasterBlaster Sep 14, 2025

Actually, I think you are being optimistic. Probably 2 months considering the debt most people have just to eat regularly.

Zahille7 Sep 14, 2025

Closer to 1 month-a couple weeks.

UltraMagnus0001 Sep 14, 2025

Bet he’s not fired

Croquette Sep 14, 2025

It’s not a call for violence, so that’s cool beans

unconsequential Sep 14, 2025

Zero chance he gets fired. He didn’t go off script. He just read the brackets.

OhStopYellingAtMe Sep 14, 2025

But they get upset when we call them Nazis.

redchert Sep 14, 2025

Their worldview can not exist without victimhood

NoodlePoint Sep 14, 2025

Scumfuck wants a white world around him.

SubgeniUS [none/use any]Sep 14, 2025

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.

redchert Sep 14, 2025

Something something political violence.

Horse {they/them}Sep 14, 2025

i think brian kilmeade should be beaten to death with a brick like the rabid dog he is

DampSquid Sep 14, 2025

That’s a bit harsh on dogs

Tangentism Sep 14, 2025

Thoughts & prayers for the brick

Yerbouti Sep 14, 2025

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.

MinnesotaGoddam Sep 14, 2025

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.