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 Westchester County, New York. In the body camera video, Sunny can reportedly be heard using her status as “one of the co-host of The View” and a “former federal prosecutor” to pressure the cops to not give her son a judicial summons.The body camera picks up with Metropolitan Transportation Authority officers running up to Gabriel in a New Rochelle train yard. The footage shows Gabriel calling attention to one of the officer’s badges and reading out his number.Gabriel was on the phone with his mother talking about her interview with Vice President J.D. Vance earlier that day, according to Sunny. Seemingly unaware she was on speakerphone, and possibly thinking he had either phone up to his ear or a wireless headphone, Sunny seemingly tells her son to lie to police and say, “Tell them your mother is a federal prosecutor.”As Sunny often likes to tout on The View, she’s actually a former federal prosecutor.  Image MTA Body Camera Footage via New York Post  That tone swiftly changed once she became aware that she was speaking with an Officer Gomez. In an unredacted version of the footage, Sunny reportedly played the do-you-know-who-I-am card and flaunted her TV star status: “My name is Sunny Hostin and I’m one of the co-hosts of ‘The View’ and I’m a former federal prosecutor.”Gabriel was 24-years old at the time of the incident but mommy came running trying to get him out of it as if he was still a minor and not an adult. “Why would you put something on his record like this?” she whined to Gomez in the body camera footage.Sometime later, Sunny showed up in person and was still trying to get the officers to drop the whole thing by repeatedly reminding them she’s “former federal prosecutor.” She also kept noting that Gabriel was a “Harvard graduate” and “Yale researcher” who “teaches geometry to South Bronx kids.”She was still doing it even after Gomez explained he was “dumping it down to a [trespass] violation” when “it’s normally a misdemeanor.” She even acknowledged her son would likely just pay a fine but was still upset that the cops stopped him.  MTA Body Camera Footage via New York Post  In another example of the Hostins’ flexing their incredible privilege, Sunny was apparently representing her son as his lawyer. TMZ obtained the letter she had written to Assistant District Attorney Amanda Greene, trying to get the case against her son dropped.In the letter, Hostin tried to suggest her son was simply looking for a hill to do some jogging on and accidentally trespassed:My client is a 2025 Harvard University graduate with no criminal history or prior contact with the criminal justice system. He is an avid runner and former Junior Olympian track athlete who was in the area training.While jogging, he observed what appeared to be a gravel incline that could be used for hill training. Although there was a gate at the entrance of the gravel incline, the gates were standing open. The only “No Trespassing” sign was affixed to the left gate and, because the gates were open, it was not visible to my client as he entered the property. He reasonably believed the area was accessible and had no intention of entering private property unlawfully.As the body camera showed, there was no hill, but rather an industrial looking train yard near 24 Station Plaza.NewsBusters believes we have managed to geo-located the location (40°54'48.6"N 73°46'55.5"W) where Gabriel was picked up. Here are some more images of landmarks.You can see the tall building in the bottom of the Google Maps image I shared. pic.twitter.com/S0ieScPTar— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 20, 2026 There doesn't appear to be an incline conducive to good hill training as Sunny claimed in her letter. To get there, Gabriel would have needed to go down a dead-end road behind some buildings that’s lined with discarded pallets and debris. The road also seemed act as a parking lot and storage for possible construction/industrial materials.The location is not immediately visible from a main roadway and is not in a rural area where one could stumble across tracks in the woods.Ironically, in 2025, Sunny made headlines when she suggested all of her neighbors in her “all white neighborhood” were racist and would call the police on him for jogging. She claims she brought her son to the police station and demanded, “Do not harass him, do not stop him” when he was on his runs.Sunny Hostin apparently thinks all her white neighbors are racists. She says she fears them calling the police on on her son if they see him training for the Junior Olympics:"As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence...I… pic.twitter.com/3Q1sfc1c5c— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 22, 2025