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Sunny Hostin Torched For ‘No One Is Above The Law’ Hypocrisy After Son’s Police Stop

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Sunny Hostin’s favorite legal line is being thrown back at her after a stunning act of hypocrisy was caught on camera.

The “View” co-host, who has repeatedly declared that “no one is above the law,” is now facing backlash after bodycam footage showed her invoking her TV fame, former federal prosecutor status and son’s elite résumé during his trespass stop.

The bodycam fight stems from Gabriel Hostin, 24, being stopped in New Rochelle, New York on June 16 over railroad trespassing.

The New York Post obtained court records accusing Gabriel of being “on the right-of-way of the active railroad tracks, in violation of the posted no trespassing signs.”

On the video, Gabriel tried to press the officers on why the matter had to go that far.

“Because it is an arrestable offense. I want to make that clear,” one officer explained.

“We’re dimming it down to a trespass violation because you were in the right-of-way,” he adds.

Police were already giving him the lighter version of the consequences he could have faced, the officer indicated.

“We know you’re not a criminal or anything like that, but our hands are tied with cameras everywhere,” the officer said.

After the handcuffs went on, Gabriel brought his mother into the conflict, and her opening pitch to police was not just that she was Gabriel’s mother.

“My name is Sunny Hostin and I’m one of the co-hosts of ‘The View’ and I’m a former federal prosecutor,” she told the officer.

Officer Gomez explained that the issue was not only less-than-legal, but dangerous.

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“Besides being illegal, it’s actually very dangerous for him to be around the railroad tracks. We get people who get hit all the time,” Gomez remarked.

Hostin then leaned on Gabriel’s background while asking police to treat the matter as a mistake.

“That’s my son. He’s a Harvard graduate. He doesn’t have a criminal record,” she stated. “He’s not a kid who’s ever in trouble. It’s an innocent mistake.”

Gomez made clear that Gabriel was already avoiding the more serious version of the charge.

“There’s nothing on his record, and he’s been very cooperative with us. But as of right now, we will have to issue him an appearance ticket,” Gomez responded.

Hostin kept pressing, this time adding Yale and his work as a teacher.

“Officer, is that really necessary? This is a kid who doesn’t do anything. He’s a Harvard graduate and a Yale researcher,” Hostin pressed. “He teaches geometry to 4th graders in the Bronx. Why would you put something on his record like this?”

Gomez refused to be swayed by Hostin’s celebrity or her son’s resume.

“It’s not anything criminal. He just has to appear. That’s all it is. It’s not a misdemeanor,” Gomez replied.

“He would have to appear, which is an inconvenience, but with all due respect, man, I still have a job to do, and we have to deter people from being on the tracks.”

Hostin later arrived at the scene and tried again, asking police to make it a warning. “I cannot at this point,” Gomez told her.

The final ticket was a 140.05 trespass violation. In New York, that kind of “non-criminal” offense can still carry arrest, fines or jail time, but it does not create a criminal record and can stay off most applications.

Gabriel claimed the railroad gate was open and called the trespass incident “an innocent mistake.”

Hostin is now personally handling the case for her son. Her argument to Assistant District Attorney Amanda Greene, in a TMZ-obtained letter, was that the trespass law was being stretched too far.

“The circumstances of this case do not reflect the type of conduct the New York Penal Law § 140.05 was intended to address,” Hostin wrote.

Hostin again used Gabriel’s résumé in the letter, citing Harvard, his past as a Junior Olympian track athlete and his claim that he was training when he “observed what appeared to be a gravel incline that could be used for his training.”

She also argued that the “No Trespassing” sign was on the left gate and not visible because the gates were open.

Metro-North Railroad police answered the visibility claim with their own photo of a “No Trespassing” sign on a pole near the open gates.

Conservatives quickly turned the clip into a hypocrisy hit, pointing to Hostin’s repeated “no one is above the law” arguments.

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly blasted Hostin as “dripping sanctimony and hypocrisy.”

“No one’s above the law, and everyone other than Sunny Hostin is swimming in privilege that she’s very pissed off about,” Kelly began.

“She doesn’t love our country,” she added. “She feels threatened and unsafe when she sees a neighborhood full of American flags because the country’s been just so devastating to her.”

She noted that Hostin’s son likely was the benefactor of his mother’s privilege due to her celebrity.

“Most people’s kids didn’t go to Harvard. Do you think her child got into Harvard completely on merit, or do you think she might have played the Sunny Hostin “View” card to help him along?” Kelly questioned.

She slammed Hostin for refusing to acknowledge that the United States “made her a multimillionaire.”

“No, it’s all about white privilege, which she talks about all the time on that show, and [how] I guess Trump is evil, and his voters are white supremacists. That’s her main talking points from The View,” Kelly concluded.

Libs of TikTok contrasted her past statements with the bodycam moment where she told officers she was “a former federal prosecutor” and described Gabriel as a Harvard graduate with no criminal record.

End Wokeness made a similar attack, tying the footage to Hostin’s 2023 comments about Donald Trump.

“You can’t commit so many crimes and think that you are above the law, even if you are the president,” Hostin said in 2023.

The line was not a one-off. Hostin used the same argument in 2023 during a Trump hush-money discussion and again in 2024 while talking about Hunter Biden’s plea deal.

Hostin was still making the same point in January while talking about why Trump ran for president again.

“I’ve said this before: I really do believe that the reason President Trump ran for the office of presidency again is because he wanted to avoid going to jail,” she remarked.

Hostin has also recently repeated another “View” claim that drew backlash, when she stated that American flags in certain neighborhoods can make her feel unsafe.

“I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show,” Hostin commented..

“I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag, and they equate being an American or an American flag with White supremacy and that should never be the symbol of White supremacy, but they have weaponized.”

She made a similar argument in 2021 while defending MSNBC analyst Mara Gay’s reaction to seeing American flags, Trump flags and anti-Biden signs in Long Island.

“When I drive into a neighborhood, and it’s not July 4th, and I’m not in a predominantly military household neighborhood and there are flags, American flags, everywhere, alongside Trump flags, alongside flags with stars in a circle, I feel threatened,” Hostin said at the time.

“Because the message is very clear,” she added. “It’s a message of White supremacy. It’s a message of racism, and it’s a message of their country, not my country. I don’t understand why that would receive backlash. People need to listen when I am saying this is how I feel. This is my experience in this country.”

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