{"id":227378,"date":"2025-09-15T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227378\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:03:09","slug":"nyc-homeless-advocates-livid-over-fox-news-host-brian-kilmeades-remarks-about-killing-the-unhoused-despite-his-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227378\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC homeless advocates livid over Fox News host Brian Kilmeade\u2019s remarks about killing the unhoused, despite his apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A homeless man sits in Chelsea.<\/p>\n

Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

Though Fox News host Brian Kilmeade apologized for comments made last week in which he suggested\u00a0homeless individuals living with mental health issues be killed<\/a> with lethal injections if they do not accept help from the government, New York City homeless advocates seethed over a remark they called \u201cdevoid of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The remarks Kilmeade himself would later call \u201cextremely callous\u201d came on Wednesday on an episode of \u201cFox and Friends\u201d as he and his co-hosts discussed homelessness and the recent slaying of 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska, in North Carolina. The suspect in the killing<\/a> was homeless at the time and has a history of mental health issues.<\/p>\n

Co-host Lawrence Jones stated that those living on the streets with mental health disorders should either accept help or be jailed when Kilmeade jumped in.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cInvoluntary lethal injection or something,\u201d Kilmeade said bluntly. \u201cJust kill \u2019em.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Kilmeade apologizes for \u2018extremely callous\u2019 remark<\/p>\n

On Sunday morning, Kilmeade apologized for the remarks<\/a> that went viral over the weekend on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrongly said they should get lethal injections,\u201d on Wednesday, Kilmeade said in a video posted on Fox News. \u201cI apologize for that extremely callous remark. I am obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina \u2013 and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FoxFox News host Brian KilmeadeWikimedia Commons\/public domain<\/p>\n

The attempt to walk the comments back did not sit well with those who have dedicated their lives to helping those in need and those who live on the streets.<\/p>\n

New York City is dealing with one of the worst homeless crises in its history<\/a> at a time when rent levels have reached historic highs<\/a>. More than 100,000 people are living in shelters across the city, according to the most recent reports.<\/p>\n

The city has also been struggling to deal with homeless individuals living on the streets with severe mental illness. The Adams Administration has worked to involuntarily hospitalize individuals deemed a threat to themselves<\/a> and the public, and connect them with care and services.<\/p>\n

Christine Quinn, president and CEO of Win, the largest provider of shelter and supportive services for homeless families with children in New York City, rebuked Kilmeade\u2019s remarks from last week and said he should volunteer in one of her organization\u2019s shelters as penance.<\/p>\n

\u201cRhetoric like this \u2013 completely devoid of all humanity \u2013 only serves to divide and inflame,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cThere is no denying that we are facing surging homelessness and mental health crises in this country that require our full-throttled attention. Instead of settling for reductive and inhumane quips, we should be focused on investing in supportive services to get these individuals the help they need and back on their feet before tragedy strikes. While I\u2019m glad to see Mr. Kilmeade\u2019s apology, I invite him to go a step further and engage in meaningful dialogue with those of us working day-in and day-out to move the needle on these critical issues. Better yet, come volunteer in one of our shelters and see the face of homelessness for yourself \u2013 we could always use the help.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CEOCEO of WIN Christine Quinn stood alongside fellow service providers and homeless and immigrant rights advocates on the steps of City Hall in January 2025 and denounced President-elect Trump\u2019s promise of mass deportations and cuts to social services allegedly a part of what has become widely known as Project 2025.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

Shams DaBaron, a former homeless New Yorker turned homeless advocate, told amNewYork that he was disturbed by what Kilmeade said on live television. He himself went from sleeping on a bench in Harlem to working with Mayor Eric Adams to address street homelessness. Like Quinn, DaBaron invited Kilmeade to walk the streets with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was exactly the type of person Kilmeade says should be killed \u2014 homeless and struggling with mental health challenges. But I transformed from someone people wanted to erase into someone working to eliminate homelessness itself,\u201d DaBaron said.<\/p>\n

The advocate said Kilmeade\u2019s apology does not undo the damage his original words have caused.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must reject this rhetoric and embrace real solutions: permanent supportive housing, mental health services, and treating homelessness as the public health crisis it is,\u201d DaBaron said. \u201cIf Kilmeade and his co-hosts truly care, I invite them to walk these streets with me and learn from those with lived experience. The \u2018solution\u2019 they discussed would have erased me before I could improve my circumstances and become part of the answer. That\u2019s not just callous \u2014 it\u2019s anti-American.\u201d<\/p>\n

DaBaron also criticized Kilmeade\u2019s co-hosts for staying silent about what he says is a suggestion tantamount to the \u201cfinal solution.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Others took to social media to call for Kilmeade\u2019s firing. Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega wrote on X: \u201dI still think he should be fired. TV hosts who casually talking about killing people on tv should not be TV hosts.\u201d<\/p>\n

amNewYork reached out to Fox News for comment and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeless man sits in Chelsea. Photo by Dean Moses Though Fox News host Brian Kilmeade apologized for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,122835,122836,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-227378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fox-and-friends","10":"tag-homelesss","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205387417898677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}