Brian Kilmeade, longtime co-host of Fox & Friends, is facing a wave of condemnation after suggesting that mentally ill homeless people should be “k*lled.”
The incendiary comment was made during a live broadcast discussing the m*rder of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was fatally attacked on a Charlotte, North Carolina train by Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent repeat offender with at least 14 prior offenses.
Brown, who was released from prison in 2020, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to his family, but refused to take medication. As a result, he was left homeless and untreated.
During a segment, after co-host Lawrence Jones argued that voluntary mental health treatment wasn’t working for individuals living on the streets, Kilmeade abruptly suggested: “Or, uh, involuntary