Fox News host apologizes for saying homeless people should be killed

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00:00Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade is apologizing in the wake of his controversial

00:04comments about unhoused individuals with mental illness. His comments came during a live discussion

00:10about the murder of Irina Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death aboard a train in

00:16Charlotte, North Carolina. A lot of them don't want to take the programs. A lot of them don't

00:24want to get the help that is necessary. You can't give them a choice. Either you take the resources

00:28that we're going to give you and or you decide that you're going to be locked up in jail.

00:33That's the way it has to be now. Or involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them.

00:38Kilmeade apologized for those comments on Sunday. I wrongly said they should get lethal injections.

00:44I apologize for that extremely callous remark. I'm obviously aware that not all mentally ill

00:50homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina and that so many homeless people

00:55deserve our empathy. Zarutska was killed on August 22nd. The suspect in the case is 34-year-old

01:01DeCarlos Brown Jr., who police say fatally stabbed her and is an unhoused individual with mental health

01:08issues. President Trump has called for Brown to receive the death penalty. The Justice Department

01:13has filed federal charges against Brown, and if convicted, he could indeed receive the death penalty.

01:18Fox News says Kilmeade's on-air apology also serves as its statement on the controversial remarks.

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