ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin, who is black, flaunted her staunch racism again during Wednesday’s edition of The View. This time she shared her fear that the residents of the wealthy, “all-white neighborhood” she lived in would call the police on her son if they saw him jogging as he trained for the Junior Olympics. She claimed she brought her son to the local police and demanded that they “Do not harass him, do not stop him.”

Hostin’s fear was triggered by their discussion of a documentary about a white Florida woman killing a black woman with her son; the woman tried to claimed self-defense via the state’s Stand Your Ground law despite the shot going through a closed metal door.

“So for me, what was interesting was, this mother – This young mother, A.J., went to the door so that she could speak to her neighbor and say this is my child, he belongs to someone, he is loved, and get his iPad back,” Hostin said.

Sharing what she would likely call her ‘lived experience,’ Hostin detailed her concerns for her son. Essentially, the fear boiled down to thinking that her neighbors were all racists:

As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. (…) And so, for me, what was interesting was; I have had to be in the position where I’ve gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics, running around the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I have brought him to the police and said he belongs to me, this is my son. Do not harass him, do not stop him.

Imagine how embarrassing it must have been for Hostin’s son, for him to be dragged down to the police station by his mom just for her to berate the cops with “Do not harass him, do not stop him!”

“Well, that was a big part of Trayvon Martin’s murder, the Stand Your Ground law,” Hostin said about the widely adopted law. “You know, what I found really heart wrenching is that there was a black mother whose kids were constantly targeted by this white woman. This was a racial biased crime.”

As they did when they covered the case previously, in 2023, The View decried Stand Your Ground laws and researching self-defense laws in general:

JOY BEHAR: It’s very scary to see that some places like Florida have what they call this –

SARA HAINES Stand Your Ground.

BEHAR: Stand Your Ground and that the woman has a gun that she shoots through a metal door.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And she was researching Stand Your Ground laws before committing the crime.

BEHAR: She already knew she might get away with it.

It didn’t matter if the woman looked up the law or that the state had the law in place because the local authorities determined that it didn’t apply in this case.

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
October 22, 2025
11:17:19 a.m. Eastern

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JOY BEHAR: It’s very scary to see that some places like Florida have what they call this –

SARA HAINES Stand Your Ground.

BEHAR: Stand Your Ground and that the woman has a gun that she shoots through a metal door.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And she was researching Stand Your Ground laws before committing the crime.

BEHAR: She already knew she might get away with it. But I won’t give you the end because –

SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, that was a big part of Trayvon Martin’s murder, the Stand Your Ground law.

You know, what I found really heart wrenching is that there was a black mother whose kids were constantly targeted by this white woman. This was a racial biased crime. And she went –

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: Do you think that if those kids were white, she wouldn’t have been so —

HAINES: It was mixed kids! The kids in the neighborhood were all different.

HOSTIN: It was mixed race but she had –

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: I found her to be racist.

HOSTIN: She’s racist but she had a particular problem with these black kids.

BEHAR: And she used the N-word, according to the cops.

HOSTIN: Yes, she did. To the kids.

So for me, what was interesting was, this mother – This young mother, A.J., went to the door so that she could speak to her neighbor and say this is my child, he belongs to someone, he is loved, and get his iPad back. And she shot her through the door in front of her son.

As a mother of black children, I know that black boys are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. She’s calling the police and saying they’re trying to steal her car and they’re 11 years old, they don’t know how to drive.

And so, for me, what was interesting was; I have had to be in the position where I’ve gone to my local police department because I know my son is going to be training for the Junior Olympics, running around the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I have brought him to the police and said he belongs to me, this is my son. Do not harass him, do not stop him.

So, she was doing what so many black mothers do and she was killed for protecting her child.

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