ABC Information co-host Sunny Hostin, who’s black, flaunted her staunch racism once more throughout Wednesday’s version of The View. This time she shared her worry that the residents of the rich, “all-white neighborhood” she lived in would name the police on her son in the event that they noticed him jogging as he skilled for the Junior Olympics. She claimed she introduced her son to the native police and demanded that they “Don’t harass him, don’t cease him.”
Hostin’s worry was triggered by their dialogue of a documentary a few white Florida lady killing a black lady together with her son; the lady tried to claimed self-defense by way of the state’s Stand Your Floor regulation regardless of the shot going by way of a closed steel door.
“So for me, what was attention-grabbing was, this mom – This younger mom, A.J., went to the door in order that she might converse to her neighbor and say that is my youngster, he belongs to somebody, he’s cherished, and get his iPad again,” Hostin stated.
Sharing what she would possible name her ‘lived expertise,’ Hostin detailed her considerations for her son. Primarily, the worry boiled all the way down to pondering that her neighbors have been all racists:
As a mom of black kids, I do know that black boys usually are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. (…) And so, for me, what was attention-grabbing was; I’ve needed to be within the place the place I’ve gone to my native police division as a result of I do know my son goes to be coaching for the Junior Olympics, working across the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I’ve introduced him to the police and stated he belongs to me, that is my son. Don’t harass him, don’t cease him.
Think about how embarrassing it will need to have been for Hostin’s son, for him to be dragged all the way down to the police station by his mother only for her to berate the cops with “Don’t harass him, don’t cease him!”
“Nicely, that was an enormous a part of Trayvon Martin’s homicide, the Stand Your Floor regulation,” Hostin stated in regards to the broadly adopted regulation. “You already know, what I discovered actually coronary heart wrenching is that there was a black mom whose youngsters have been continually focused by this white lady. This was a racial biased crime.”
As they did after they lined the case beforehand, in 2023, The View decried Stand Your Floor legal guidelines and researching self-defense legal guidelines generally:
JOY BEHAR: It’s extremely scary to see that some locations like Florida have what they name this –
SARA HAINES Stand Your Floor.
BEHAR: Stand Your Floor and that the lady has a gun that she shoots by way of a steel door.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And she or he was researching Stand Your Floor legal guidelines earlier than committing the crime.
BEHAR: She already knew she may get away with it.
It didn’t matter if the lady appeared up the regulation or that the state had the regulation in place as a result of the native authorities decided that it didn’t apply on this case.
The transcript is beneath. Click on “broaden” to learn:
ABC’s The View
October 22, 2025
11:17:19 a.m. Japanese(…)
JOY BEHAR: It’s extremely scary to see that some locations like Florida have what they name this –
SARA HAINES Stand Your Floor.
BEHAR: Stand Your Floor and that the lady has a gun that she shoots by way of a steel door.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And she or he was researching Stand Your Floor legal guidelines earlier than committing the crime.
BEHAR: She already knew she may get away with it. However I will not provide the finish as a result of –
SUNNY HOSTIN: Nicely, that was an enormous a part of Trayvon Martin’s homicide, the Stand Your Floor regulation.
You already know, what I discovered actually coronary heart wrenching is that there was a black mom whose youngsters have been continually focused by this white lady. This was a racial biased crime. And she or he went –
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: Do you assume that if these youngsters have been white, she would not have been so —
HAINES: It was combined youngsters! The children within the neighborhood have been all totally different.
HOSTIN: It was combined race however she had –
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: I discovered her to be racist.
HOSTIN: She’s racist however she had a selected drawback with these black youngsters.
BEHAR: And she or he used the N-word, in keeping with the cops.
HOSTIN: Sure, she did. To the children.
So for me, what was attention-grabbing was, this mom – This younger mom, A.J., went to the door in order that she might converse to her neighbor and say that is my youngster, he belongs to somebody, he’s cherished, and get his iPad again. And she or he shot her by way of the door in entrance of her son.
As a mom of black kids, I do know that black boys usually are not given the presumption of innocence and the presumption of youth. She’s calling the police and saying they’re attempting to steal her automotive and so they’re 11 years previous, they don’t know the right way to drive.
And so, for me, what was attention-grabbing was; I’ve needed to be within the place the place I’ve gone to my native police division as a result of I do know my son goes to be coaching for the Junior Olympics, working across the neighborhood, in an all-white neighborhood, and I’ve introduced him to the police and stated he belongs to me, that is my son. Don’t harass him, don’t cease him.
So, she was doing what so many black moms do and she or he was killed for safeguarding her youngster.
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