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Justice Dept Indicts Three in First Federal Reporter Assault.

4/30/2026

Summary

Story summary

The Justice Department indicted Chris, DeYanna, and Paige Ostroushko for assaulting reporter Savanah Hernandez at Minneapolis’s Whipple Building, marking the first federal charge over the protest this year.
The three will appear in court on May 12 as the FBI probes the assault in a civil-rights investigation.
Video released to WCCO shows Hernandez recording before being pushed, punched, and tackled, with accused claiming they defended family members and denied violence.

History

Historical Context

In August 1968, about 10,000 anti-war demonstrators met 23,000 Chicago police and National Guard troops at the Democratic National Convention, where the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence called the clash a “police riot.” Attorney General Ramsey Clark ordered a DOJ probe of civil-rights violations, establishing a precedent for federal press-freedom prosecutions that underpins today’s indictment of Chris, DeYanna and Paige Ostroushko.

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Story summary

The Justice Department indicted Chris, DeYanna, and Paige Ostroushko for assaulting reporter Savanah Hernandez at Minneapolis’s Whipple Building, marking the first federal charge over the protest this year.
The three will appear in court on May 12 as the FBI probes the assault in a civil-rights investigation.
Video released to WCCO shows Hernandez recording before being pushed, punched, and tackled, with accused claiming they defended family members and denied violence.

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