Fox News Host Calls For Killing Homeless People by Lethal Injection

This Is Not Professional Journalistic Commentary. It Is Dystopian Genocidal Rhetoric.

On Wednesday morning Fox and Friends decided to turn the tragedy of a brutal killing into an excuse to spew fascist garbage on national television. The hosts were discussing the horrifying case of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death on a North Carolina train. The alleged killer had a history of arrests, was homeless, and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. It is a devastating story, one that demands a serious discussion about mental health, housing, and public safety.

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Instead, Brian Kilmeade suggested murder as public policy. His words were crystal clear: “Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill ’em.” That was not satire. That was not a slip of the tongue. That was a Fox News host openly calling for the execution of mentally ill homeless people.

Lawrence Jones doubled down with his own authoritarian bile, saying that people who refuse help should face a choice between state control and prison. Ainsley Earhardt sat there like a mannequin, giving tacit approval through silence. And Fox News, as always, let it air unchallenged, uncorrected, and unashamed.

Make no mistake. This is not tough talk. This is not controversial commentary. This is ignorance weaponized into cruelty. It is the rhetoric of scumbags who treat human beings as trash. Once you normalize the idea that the poor, the sick, or the mentally ill can be executed for being inconvenient, you have left journalism and entered the realm of barbarism.

Fox News has long made a sport of vilifying the poor, mocking the vulnerable, and stoking hatred for profit. But this crosses into something darker. This is the language of extermination. This is fascist rhetoric, broadcast into millions of homes as if it were just another morning headline.

Kilmeade’s words were evil. Jones’s words were authoritarian poison. Earhardt’s silence was complicity. And Fox News once again revealed itself for what it truly is, not a news outlet but a propaganda machine that thrives on dehumanization.

Homelessness is not a crime. Mental illness is not a crime. But calling for their deaths on live television should be treated as one.

Every decent person should be furious. Every moral person should condemn this filth. Because history is unflinching: when societies begin treating the vulnerable as disposable, when public figures openly call for their deaths, the road that follows leads straight to atrocity.

Fox News owes the public more than an apology. It owes accountability. And Brian Kilmeade should never again be allowed a voice or platform for his disgustingly inhumane rhetoric.

It doesn't matter that he was angry at the situation. Everyone should be angry that a violent offender and mentally ill patient was released, and that release resulted in the death of an innocent person. That is a tragedy that should never have happened.

But we don't throw away our humanity and kill innocent people just because they're homeless or mentally ill. You help them and heal them, even if they're violent criminals, keep them locked up, yes, if they are violent, lock them up and protect the public, but treat them with proper mental healthcare because they are mentally ill. You make law that protects them as well and that doesn't push dangerous and violent mental patients untreated out onto the street where they can harm people. The judge and everyone involved should be held accountable by the law for what happened.

This should be common sense. But apparently it's not. You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You stop, think, use your brain, and come up with a mental healthcare program that will prevent what happened to Iryna Zarutska from happening again. You don't go around killing people because they're homeless or mentally ill. You give them the help they need and they won't be out there hurting or killing innocent people.

Kilmeade should be fired. Not just for his recent comment, but for his many years on FOX News' dystopian authoritarian propaganda machine and spreading division and hate and lies. And now we can add genocidal commentary inciting violence against homeless people.

It's lazy, it's inhumane, it's ignorant and it's evil.