Minnesota Man Who Shoved Reporter at Anti-ICE Protest Says Family Is ‘Not Violent,’ Journalist Calls Them 'Aggressors'

A Minnesota father was caught on video shoving a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) journalist off the road during a chaotic anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest. In a recent interview, he said his family is “non-violent.” The video of the incident is circulating on social media and sparking debate.

The conservative journalist, identified as Savanah Harnandez, who works for Turning Point USA, an organization founded by Charlie Kirk , was assaulted and pushed to the ground. The incident occurred in Minnesota, Minneapolis, on April 11. However, in a recent podcast interview with Brian Shapiro, the man identified as Chris Ostroushko said, “We are absolutely non-violent people.”

The interview with Shapiro was Ostroushko’s first since the April 11 viral incident. “We are absolutely not violent people. In fact, we tend to shy away from it,” Ostroushko said in his interview with Shapiro. “In fact, the day you will see, I was not even up in the front during this whole event. I stayed back and kind of watched what was going on,” he said.

Chris Ostroushko, along with his wife, De Yanna, and daughter, Paige, was seen on camera in an altercation with Savanah Harnandez outside the Whipple building in Minnesota on April 11th.

Savanah Harnandez was covering the “F… ICE Day” protest when she said demonstrators surrounded her after learning she was affiliated with Turning Point USA, a conservative organization.

In an interview with Fox News Digital on April 16, Hernandez rejected the claims Ostroushko made in the podcast that his family was non-violent. She said Ostroushko's family were the aggressors.

“I would just say if I hit them first, it would be on camera,” Hernandez said. “There are multiple angles of Paige walking up to me as I am standing by myself, and also her mother is the first person who came up to me and started harassing me,” she said.

Hernandez said that De Yanna Ostroushko was “pressing her body up against me and shoved me multiple times,” while her “husband then shoved me from behind and started screaming in my ear.” She said this happened before, “Chris Ostroushko instructed his daughter on camera to go and blow the whistle in my effing ear.”

“At no point was I walking up to these people,” Hernandez said. “All three of them walked up to me, the father and the mother shoved me first and then instructed their daughter to come assault me,” she said.

Hernandez also rejected the claim that she hit Paige first. She said that after Paige moved within inches of her ear and blew the whistle, she only raised her hand to create space and tried to walk away, but she said the Ostroushkos refused to leave her alone.