AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Sunny Hostin allegedly invoked her role on The View after son was cited for trespassing on railroad tracks
When police in New Rochelle, New York, stopped a 24-year-old man for jogging on active Metro-North railroad tracks last month, the routine trespassing citation took a turn. The man's mother got on the phone, and, according to a police source, wanted officers to know exactly who she was. That mother was Sunny Hostin, the 57-year-old […] The post Sunny Hostin allegedly invoked her role on The View after son was cited for trespassing on railroad tracks appeared first on American Almanac .
When police in New Rochelle, New York, stopped a 24-year-old man for jogging on active Metro-North railroad tracks last month, the routine trespassing citation took a turn. The man's mother got on the phone, and, according to a police source, wanted officers to know exactly who she was. That mother was Sunny Hostin, the 57-year-old co-host of ABC's The View, former federal prosecutor, and now, according to court filings, her own son's defense attorney. The Daily Mail reported that Hostin asked officers whether they knew who she was and invoked her daytime television platform during the June 16 encounter near 24 Station Plaza. The incident is a small-bore legal matter, a trespassing citation, not a felony. But the behavior alleged around…Open