Three Individuals Federally Charged with Assault and Intimidating Turning Point USA Journalist by Force

The Department of Justice today announced the unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment charging Christopher Ostroushko, Deyanna Ostroushko, and Paige Ostroushko with assaulting a journalist while she was reporting on an anti-ICE protest on federal property in St. Paul Minnesota on April 11, 2026. Christopher Ostroushko and Paige Ostroushko are also charged with willfully and forcefully injuring and intimidating that journalist.

"These three individuals were indicted by a grand jury for allegedly assaulting journalist and Turning Point USA contributor Savannah Hernandez, while she was lawfully reporting on anti-ICE protests outside a federal building in St. Paul," said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

"Hernandez was allegedly surrounded, physically assaulted, and shoved to the ground - simply because she was identified by the defendants as a conservative journalist. That is NOT 'peaceful protest.' These deplorable actions as charged in the indictment will not be tolerated in America, and this Department of Justice will always punish unhinged acts of political violence."

"Political violence is a national scourge," said United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen, "and federal law enforcement will not tolerate it."

FBI, HSI and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office are investigating the case.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.