Minnesota dad who shoved Turning Point USA journo at anti-ICE protest says family is absolutely not violent

A Minnesota father caught on camera shoving conservative reporter Savanah Hernandez to the ground during a chaotic anti-ICE protest says he was defending his wife and daughter and insists his family is “absolutely not violent.”“We are absolutely not violent people.In fact, we tend to shy away from it,” Chris Ostroushko told podcast host Brian Shapiro in his first interview since the viral incident.“In fact, that day, you’ll see I was not even up in the front at all during this whole event.

I just stayed back and kind of watched what was going on,” he added.Ostroushko, his wife DeYanna and daughter Paige were seen on camera in an altercation with TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez outside the Whipple building in Minnesota on April 11.Hernandez was covering the protest for “f— ICE day” when she says demonstrators surrounded her after realizing she was affiliated with Turning Point USA, the conservative organization founded by Charlie Kirk.In an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Hernandez strongly disputed the family’s account and said the Ostroushkos were the aggressors.“I would just say if I hit them first, it would be on camera,” Hernandez said.“There’s multiple angles of Paige walking up to me as I’m standing by myself.

And also her mom is the first person who came up to start harassing me.”Hernandez said DeYanna Ostroushko was “pressing her body up against me and shoving me multiple times,” while “her husband then shoved me from behind and started screaming in my ear.”She said that happened before “Chris Ostroushko then 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 mother and father shoved me first and then instructed their daughter to come assault me.”Hernandez also rejected the claim that she hit Paige first.She said that after Paige moved within inches ...