A FOX News host has apologized after he said homeless people who refuse help should be executed by the government.
Brian Kilmeade made his original comments on Sept. 10, the same day conservative figure Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah during a campus appearance. Kilmeade and colleagues on "Fox & Friends" had been talking about the Aug. 22 murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a man authorities say was mentally ill but not institutionalized.
When a co-host said mentally ill and homeless people should be more aggressively detained and forcibly treated, Kilmeade added: "Or involuntary injection or something. Just kill 'em."
Speaking on Fox on Sept. 14, Kilmeade apologized for what he called a "callous" remark.
"I am obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina, and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion," he said.
