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Sunny Hostin invoked 'View' status, prosecutor past on bodycam after son's trespassing stop

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Newest development Jul 21, 2026 · 2 reportsSunny Hostin invoked 'View' status, prosecutor past on bodycam after son's trespassing stop

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin repeatedly invoked her television career and her past as a federal prosecutor while trying to talk police out of citing her son for trespassing on active Metro-North Railroad tracks.

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  1. Bodycam shows Sunny Hostin trying to talk cops out of busting Harvard-grad son for trespassing: ‘I’m a former federal prosecutor’…

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  2. Bodycam shows Sunny Hostin trying to talk cops out of busting Harvard-grad son for trespassing: ‘I’m a former federal prosecutor’…

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  3. Bodycam catches Sunny Hostin invoking her legal chops as cops cite Harvard-grad son for trespassing

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    Sunny Hostin invoked 'View' status, prosecutor past on bodycam after son's trespassing stop

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  1. Pants on Fire News

    Sunny Hostin’s Son Just Landed in Handcuffs and It Exposed What She Really Believes About Justice (opens Pants on Fire News)

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    Pants on Fire News's feed description

    Gabriel Hostin got caught breaking the law along the Metro-North tracks in New Rochelle. His mother got on the phone before police even finished the stop. What Sunny Hostin wrote afterward will

  2. BizPac Review

    Sunny Hostin uses her status as cohost of ‘The View’ to urge cops to let her son off with warning (opens BizPac Review)

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    Co-hosting duty on “The View” was just one of the status claims Sunny Hostin repeatedly dropped in her effort to have cops let her son off with […]

  3. Not The Bee

  4. Revolver News

  5. The Western Journal

    Body Cam Catches The View's Sunny Hostin Trying to Use Her Status to Talk Cops Out of Arresting Her Son (opens The Western Journal)

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    Sunny Hostin wanted police to know that she was someone to be reckoned with after her son was detained on a trespassing charge. And that has unleashed a deluge of […]

  6. Objectivist

  7. Breitbart News

    Video: 'The View's' Sunny Hostin Seen Trying to Convince Police Not to Arrest Her Son (opens Breitbart News)

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    Sunny Hostin, one of the hosts of ABC' left-wing talk show "The View," was caught on video playing a little "do you know who I am" with police last month as she tried to convince officers not to arrest her son during a trespassing violation.

  8. Revolver News

  9. Pants on Fire News

    Newly Released Bodycam Video Just Exposed Sunny Hostin Playing One Card She Has Attacked for Years (opens Pants on Fire News)

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    Sunny Hostin built her career warning America that police target black boys like her son. Police just released bodycam video showing her doing something very different with that same son. That video

  10. Louder With Crowder

    Bodycams for the win! "The View's" Sunny Hostin busted using her celebrity privilege when cops caught her son trespassing (opens Louder With Crowder)

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    Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium ! According to Sunny Hostin, “no one is above the law.” Unless, of course, it’s her son because he graduated from Harvard and teaches geometry.

  11. NewsBusters

    I’m a ‘Co-Host of The View’: Sunny Hostin Presses Cops in Son’s Trespassing Bust (opens NewsBusters)

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    I’m a ‘Co-Host of The View’: Sunny Hostin Presses Cops in Son’s Trespassing Bust MTA Body Camera Footage via New York Post On June 16, 2026, Gabriel Hostin, the son of ABC’s Sunny Hostin, put his Ivy League education to the test and decided to allegedly trespass in a Metro-North train yard in Westch…

  12. Fox News

    Bodycam catches Sunny Hostin invoking her legal chops as cops cite Harvard-grad son for trespassing (opens Fox News)

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    Bodycam video captures Sunny Hostin telling MTA police she's a former federal prosecutor after her son Gabriel Hostin was stopped for trespassing.

  13. Blue State Blues News

    The View’s Sunny Hostin Got Caught on Bodycam Proving She Never Believed a Word of It (opens Blue State Blues News)

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    Sunny Hostin spent three years telling America that no one – not even the president – is above the law. Then her Harvard-educated son walked onto an electrified rail line and

  14. Washington Times

    Sunny Hostin invoked 'View' status, prosecutor past on bodycam after son's trespassing stop (opens Washington Times)

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    "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin repeatedly invoked her television career and her past as a federal prosecutor while trying to talk police out of citing her son for trespassing on active Metro-North Railroad tracks.

  15. Blaze Media

    WATCH: Sunny Hostin caught on body cam using 'federal prosecutor' privilege to shield Ivy League son from trespassing citation (opens Blaze Media)

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    Sunny Hostin of “The View” has made a career for herself lecturing the show’s threadbare audience about how privileged white people are compared to black people like her. If Hostin’s multimillion-dollar net worth and prestigious education and career backgrounds weren’t enough to debunk her oppressio…

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