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

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

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

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

Body camera video shows "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin speaking with 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 transgression 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 the Metro-North railroad right-of-way astatine the New Rochelle station.

Police alleged helium was trespassing successful an country marked with "NO TRESPASSING" signs.

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin speaks with 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 the 23-year-old was observed moving adjacent an electrified 3rd obstruction earlier officers stopped him adjacent Commerce Drive, conducted a transgression inheritance cheque and escorted him from the area.

Because Hostin had nary transgression past and cooperated with officers, constabulary said helium was issued a summons for trespass and released.

The bodycam video shows Gabriel Hostin asking officers whether issuing the 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 privation to marque that clear," 1 serviceman tells him.

"We're dimming it down to a trespass usurpation due to the fact that you were successful the right-of-way."

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

"We cognize you're not a transgression oregon thing similar that, but our hands are tied with cameras everywhere," the 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 helium observed Gabriel Hostin connected the progressive railroad right-of-way astatine the New Rochelle presumption "in usurpation of the posted NO TRESPASSING signs."

The citation communicative likewise states officers observed him connected the 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 the entranceway to the property, on with photos of the 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 argued her lad mistakenly entered the spot portion jogging aft spotting what appeared to beryllium a gravel incline suitable for elevation training.

She said the entranceway gross was unfastened and that the lone "No Trespassing" motion was attached to the near gross and was not disposable erstwhile helium entered.

The bodycam video besides sparked absorption online, with respective blimpish accounts criticizing Hostin for invoking her ineligible inheritance during the encounter.

The View's Sunny Hostin claimed earthquake, cicadas and the eclipse could beryllium seen arsenic signs of clime change. (screenshot)

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

End Wokeness posted a akin critique, arguing the footage conflicted with Hostin's erstwhile nationalist comments astir adjacent attraction nether the law.

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