Fox News host Brian Kilmeade issued a rare on-air apology Sunday after sparking national outrage for suggesting violent homeless people should be executed by �involuntary lethal injection.�

The incendiary remark came Wednesday during a Fox & Friends segment on the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was fatally attacked on a North Carolina train. Authorities have charged Decarlos Brown Jr., a homeless man with a long criminal record, in connection with the killing.

As his co-host Lawrence Jones argued that violent homeless individuals should be jailed, Kilmeade went further, interjecting: �Involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill �em.� The comment drew swift condemnation from across the political spectrum and ricocheted across social media, prompting calls for accountability.

By Sunday morning, Kilmeade moved to contain the fallout. �I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologize for that extremely callous remark,� he said, clarifying that his intention was to highlight public safety concerns but not to equate homelessness with criminality. �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.�

Advocates for the homeless blasted Kilmeade�s comments as dehumanizing, while critics on both the right and left warned that such language only inflames divisions over how to address the nation�s homelessness crisis.

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