Fox News host Brian Kilmeade apologized Sunday morning after going viral for saying that homeless individuals ought to obtain “involuntary lethal injections” Wednesday on Fox and Friends.

The clip, labeled “Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people,” had garnered greater than 20 million views on X by Sunday afternoon.

In the Wednesday section, Kilmeade and the opposite hosts had been speaking about final month’s homicide of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina. The suspect within the killing struggled with psychological sickness and was residing in a homeless shelter, the suspect’s mom informed CNN.

Co-host Lawrence Jones mentioned taxpayers have given “billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population,” however “a lot of them don’t want to take the programs, a lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary.”

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

That’s what prompted Kilmeade so as to add, “Or involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill ‘em.”

Apology

“Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections,” Kilmeade mentioned. “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.”