Sunny Hostin has built a nice little side career out of diagnosing other people’s privilege. So when police caught her 24-year-old son wandering around active Metro-North railroad tracks in New Rochelle last month, you’d think the The View co-host and former federal prosecutor would have let the process play out. Instead, bodycam footage shows her doing exactly the thing she’s spent years telling America is a problem when other people do it.
NEW: The View’s Sunny Hostin seen using her privilege to try to get her son out of trouble for trespassing, tells police she is a “former federal prosecutor.”
“My name is Sunny Hostin… and I’m a former federal prosecutor,” Hostin said while telling police her son went to… pic.twitter.com/HsKYoKNuDH
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 18, 2026
