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Topics: Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, US News, Celebrity, TV and Film
Emma Rosemurgey
Topics: Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, US News, Celebrity, TV and Film
Jimmy Kimmel viewers are all saying the same thing after a Fox News host was forced to apologise over an 'extremely callous remark' about homeless people.
Brian Kilmeade made the comment during a discussion about the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month.
The conversation then turned to Decarlos Brown Jr, who has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder over the attack, prompting Kilmeade's co-host to suggest that a lot of mentally ill homeless people don't want to accept help.
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"A lot of them [mentally ill homeless people] do not want to take the programmes. A lot of them do not want to get the help that is necessary," Lawrence Jones said.
"You cannot give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we are gonna give you, or you decide that you are going to be locked up in jail. That is the way it has to be now."
Kilmeade then added: "Or just give them an involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them."
The Fox & Friends host has since apologised for his remarks following backlash, branding them 'extremely callous', however, he doesn't appear to have faced any repercussions from the network.
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"We were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte and how to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalising or jailing such people so they cannot attack again," he said in the statement posted on Fox's website.
"Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologise 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."
However, many have been quick to point out the disparity between Kilmeade and Jimmy Kimmel, who was pulled from air 'indefinitely' for suggesting that Donald Trump supporters were weaponising Charlie Kirk's death to 'score political points'.
"Jimmy Kimmel basically just lost his job for saying Charlie Kirk’s killer was MAGA," one wrote on X.
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"Just a few days ago, here’s Brian Kilmeade of Fox News saying homeless people should be killed. He still has his job."
Another commented: "Brian Kilmeade should definitely get s*** canned for saying 'homeless people should get involuntary lethal injection and just kill em'. WTF kinda mentality is that?
"This man deserves more punishment than Jimmy Kimmel saying a poor taste MAGA joke."
A third agreed: "The hypocrisy is astounding! I am not accustomed to watching Jimmy Kimmel, but if the FCC can be used to silence him over such innocuous nonsense, yet have absolutely no problem with the Fox host calling for the genocide of the homeless, after which, homeless people are actually murdered, then they have lost all credibility."