I’m marking time until the Star Tribune shares the details of the assault on TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez at the Whipple Federal Building this past weekend. I may run out of material before the Star Tribune gets around to it, but today we have enough for a few more days at least. Today we have a video analysis of the assault.
I’m talking about the Ostroushko family, led by “suburban dad” Chris Ostroushko. The Star Tribune featured him as one of the heroic members of the Twin Cities community doing its thing to thwart immigration law enforcement during Operation Metro Surge. That’s not the way the Star Tribune put it, of course, but that’s what it’s what it was all about, and it still is.
Whipple houses ICE in the Twin Cities. The Ostroushko family — suburban dad Chris, suburban mom DeYanna, and suburban daughter Paige — turned up at Whipple this past weekend to join a protest opposing ICE. They apparently turned on Ms. Hernandez when they detected she was not on their team.
Paige’s sister Desiree was not on hand. She is estranged from the suburban dad. She didn’t make it into the Star Tribune’s January 27 profile of the suburban dad. We will have to come back to Desiree on our own.
Now the Ostroushkos contend they were just defending themselves from the fearsome Savanah. “We are absolutely not violent people. In fact, we tend to shy away from it,” Chris Ostroushko told podcast host Brian Shapiro in an interview this week. Bubba the Love Sponge breaks down the assault in the video below.
Bubba’s frame-by-frame breakdown of the Savanah Hernandez attack is BRUTAL 🔥
Paige blasts whistle in her ear → swings & misses → shoves her into fence → mom & daughter dogpile.
Savanah was just filming. 3 arrested. FBI investigating.
Self-defense… or assault on a… pic.twitter.com/9safRcmMw9— Bubba The Love Sponge®️ (@TheBubbaArmy) April 17, 2026
