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

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin many times reminded constabulary she was a "former national prosecutor" aft officers stopped her Harvard-educated boy for trespassing connected Metro-North railroad property, arsenic recently released assemblage camera video captured nan TV big urging officers to trim him a break.

"My sanction is Sunny Hostin and I'm 1 of nan co-hosts of 'The View' and I'm a erstwhile national prosecutor," Hostin tells an serviceman complete nan telephone successful bodycam video obtained by Fox News Digital.

After arriving astatine nan scene, Hostin continued making her case.

Body camera video shows "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin speaking pinch MTA constabulary arsenic her son, Gabriel Hostin, stands adjacent aft being stopped for trespassing connected Metro-North railroad property. (Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA))

"That's my son. He's a Harvard graduate. He doesn't person a criminal record," she says. "He's not a kid who's ever successful trouble. It's an guiltless mistake."

According to records obtained by Fox News Digital, Gabriel Hostin was stopped by Metropolitan Transportation Authority constabulary soon earlier 8 p.m. June 16 aft officers observed him connected nan Metro-North railroad right-of-way astatine nan New Rochelle station.

Police alleged he was trespassing successful an area marked pinch "NO TRESPASSING" signs.

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin speaks pinch Metropolitan Transportation Authority constabulary officers aft her son, Gabriel Hostin, was stopped for trespassing connected Metro-North railroad spot successful New Rochelle, New York. (Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA))

An MTA Police spokesperson told Fox News Digital nan 23-year-old was observed moving adjacent an electrified 3rd obstruction earlier officers stopped him adjacent Commerce Drive, conducted a criminal inheritance cheque and escorted him from nan area.

Because Hostin had nary criminal history and cooperated pinch officers, constabulary said he was issued a summons for trespass and released.

The bodycam video shows Gabriel Hostin asking officers whether issuing nan summons was necessary.

Co-host Sunny Hostin speaks during ABC's "The View" connected July 6, 2026. (ABC/TheView)

"Because it is an arrestable offense. I want to make that clear," 1 serviceman tells him.

"We're dimming it down to a trespass usurpation because you were successful nan right-of-way."

The serviceman goes connected to explicate that constabulary were taking his deficiency of criminal history into account.

"We cognize you're not a criminal aliases thing for illustration that, but our hands are tied pinch cameras everywhere," nan serviceman says.

Hostin again urged officers to workout discretion.

"He's a Harvard grad who teaches fourth-grade geometry to South Bronx kids," she says. "He's not a kid who's ever successful trouble. It's an guiltless mistake."

A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) subway motion is pictured connected June 29, 2017 successful New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

According to charging documents obtained by Fox News Digital, an serviceman alleged he observed Gabriel Hostin connected nan progressive railroad right-of-way astatine nan New Rochelle position "in usurpation of nan posted NO TRESPASSING signs."

The citation communicative likewise states officers observed him connected nan railroad right-of-way earlier conducting a warrant cheque that came backmost antagonistic and issuing him an quality summons for trespass.

The records besides see photographs of informing signs reading, "NO TRESPASSING – PRIVATE PROPERTY – VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED," posted adjacent nan entranceway to nan property, on pinch photos of nan gated entree point.

According to tribunal records, Gabriel Hostin is scheduled to look successful New Rochelle City Court connected July 31.

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In a missive obtained by TMZ, Hostin based on her boy mistakenly entered nan spot while jogging aft spotting what appeared to beryllium a gravel incline suitable for elevation training.

She said nan entranceway gross was unfastened and that nan only "No Trespassing" motion was attached to nan near gross and was not visible erstwhile he entered.

The bodycam video besides sparked guidance online, pinch respective blimpish accounts criticizing Hostin for invoking her ineligible inheritance during nan encounter.

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Libs of TikTok contrasted Hostin's past remarks that "no 1 is supra nan law" pinch her comments to officers that she was "a erstwhile national prosecutor" and that her boy was a Harvard postgraduate pinch nary criminal record.

End Wokeness posted a akin critique, arguing nan footage conflicted pinch Hostin's erstwhile nationalist comments astir adjacent curen nether nan law.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Hostin's representatives for comment.