Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Apologizes for Viral Comments Suggesting Violent Homeless People Should Be Killed: ‘Extremely Callous’

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has apologized for the viral rant in which he suggested that violent homeless people should be killed.

During a Fox & Friends conversation, Wednesday, about the murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train, Kilmeade made highly controversial remarks which have been called out by publications on both sides of the aisle. Kilmeade’s colleague, Lawrence Jones, proposed jailing violent homeless people. (Decarlos Brown Jr. — who has been arrested in connection with the grisly North Carolina slaying — is a homeless man with a lengthy criminal record.)

“You can’t give them a choice,” Jones said. “Either you take the resources that we’re gonna give you, or you decide that you’re gonna be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be.”

Kilmeade responded with a shocking suggestion.

“Involuntary lethal injection or something,” Kilmeade said. “Just kill ’em.”

Sunday on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade joined the show towards the end of the 6 a.m. hour to deliver an apology:

“We were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina and how to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people so they cannot attack again. Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I 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 and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.”

Watch above, via Fox News.