Federal investigations are underway after TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez was attacked by a family while filming an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis over the weekend.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/2044018262812303729">confirmed</a> the Department of Justice and FBI investigations on Tuesday after the Ostroushko family clashed with Hernandez at the protest outside the Whipple Federal Building, a local ICE field office, and a detention facility. The Hennepin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has reportedly <a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/tpusa-contributor-attacked-during-anti-ice-protest-federal-probe-underway-savannah-hernandez-andy-ngo-civil-rights">arrested</a> several people, three of them in connection with the alleged assault. 
The three individuals arrested include Chris Ostroushko, his daughter Paige, and Paige&#8217;s boyfriend, Lorenzo Garcia, 20, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://www.aol.com/articles/man-accused-attacking-conservative-journalist-211341530.html?guccounter=1">told</a> the Daily Caller.
Chris and Garcia were arrested for obstruction with force, while Paige was arrested for disorderly conduct. Chris&#8217;s wife, Deyanna, was also identified on video confronting Hernandez but was not among those charged.
Hernandez caught several of the attacks on <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043088956351189051">video</a>, where she could clearly be seen being harassed and shoved by the protesters. Paige, a sophomore at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, was shown blowing a whistle in Hernandez&#8217;s face before physically attacking Hernandez.
One video shows Chris pushing Hernandez to the ground.
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I&#8217;m waking up with a headache and stiff neck this morning due to how violently anti-ICE activist, Chris Ostroushko, shoved me down yesterday.
A second angle shows that he had to be held back by 5 men as he continued to charge at me.
I didn&#8217;t speak a word to him all day yet he… <a href="https://t.co/LjDx1GMLnF">pic.twitter.com/LjDx1GMLnF</a>
— Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) <a href="https://twitter.com/Savsays/status/2043336993514373245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2026</a></blockquote>
In another <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043893070517633258">video</a>, the Ostroushko family is seen discussing the attack beforehand, in which Chris can be heard telling his daughter to &#8220;Blow the whistle right in her f*cking ear.”
Chris Ostroushko was previously known to law enforcement, as Crime Watch Minneapolis <a href="https://x.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/2043725239159279977">reported</a> that he was convicted of defrauding the state after he illegally received unemployment benefits of nearly $ 7,000 in the early 2000s.
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday, Hernandez <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043851758749819063">said</a> she believes the incident escalated because the protesters found out who she works for. &#8220;Since Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination, this is now the third time that people have come up to me &#8230; figured out I work for TPUSA, and have made a point to confront me, to threaten me, to harass me, and now brutally assault me, to prove a point.&#8221;
“I’m scared to report, Laura,” Hernandez admitted. “This is my job. It’s what I’ve been doing for the last six years.”
“I can&#8217;t even interview people properly on the street because I get brutally assaulted and pushed to the ground by a 250-pound man for simply going and reporting on anti-ICE activities,” she added.
&#8220;For far too long, the violent left has been allowed to get away with repeated attacks on journalists,&#8221; Hernandez <a href="https://x.com/Savsays/status/2043392312676397294">posted</a> to X. &#8220;I’m looking forward to justice being served after what happened yesterday.&#8221;
Border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2043837999624970532">echoed</a> Hernandez on the show with Ingraham, &#8220;We cannot give up on this. We have to keep prosecuting these people &#8230; We cannot accept this as a norm in the United States of America.&#8221;

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