Sunny Hostin Invokes Legal Background After Son Cited for Trespassing

Bodycam footage shows 'The View' co-host telling transit police she is a former federal prosecutor

Bodycam video captured "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin telling MTA police she was a former federal prosecutor after her son, Gabriel Hostin, was stopped and cited for trespassing, according to Fox News.

The footage shows Hostin invoking her legal background during the encounter with transit officers involving her Harvard-graduate son, Fox News reported.

Hostin, a former federal prosecutor before joining television, has been a fixture on daytime talk television for years. The circumstances of the trespassing citation and its outcome were not detailed beyond the bodycam exchange captured by police.

— Compiled from reporting by Fox News.