Overview

• Guest-hosting The Ingraham Angle, Kilmeade criticized ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, saying television executives felt Kimmel’s rhetoric went too far.
• Prominent voices on X, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accused Kilmeade of hypocrisy for lecturing on network standards days after his own controversy.
• The renewed outrage follows his Fox & Friends line, “Or involuntary lethal injection… Just kill ’em,” during a discussion of mentally ill homeless people who refuse treatment.
• Kilmeade apologized, calling the statement “extremely callous” and acknowledging that many homeless people deserve empathy and compassion.
• The original segment concerned the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, for which a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia has been charged, focusing attention on policy gaps in mental health and public safety.