Turning Point USA contributor Savanah Hernandez said she is “terrified to do my job” in the wake of increased confrontations she has received in recent months.
Hernandez, a reporter for TPUSA’s Frontlines, was allegedly shoved to the ground by a man when she was covering a protest in Minnesota on Saturday. A federal criminal investigation is ongoing into her accused assailant, Chris Ostroushko, by the FBI.
Hernandez said Saturday’s encounter marked the third time since Charlie Kirk’s assassination that protesters have confronted and threatened her after discovering she works for TPUSA.
“I wasn’t interviewing anybody, I wasn’t engaging with anybody, I was, and I apologize … this is the first time I’m talking about this assault, and I’m scared to report, Laura,” Hernandez said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. “This is my job. It’s what I have been doing for the last six years, and I’m terrified to do my job. I can’t even interview people properly on the street because I got brutally assaulted and pushed to the ground by a 250-pound man for simply going and reporting on anti-ICE activities.”
Hernandez also said she made a point not to interview that type of person because “the left wing is violent.” She claimed that left-wingers had killed Kirk last year and that “they’re coming for each and every single Turning Point USA employee” because they know local jurisdictions will not charge them.
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Hernandez said she told the local sheriff’s office that she wants her assailants to be charged, and the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have opened their own investigations.
White House order czar Tom Homan said his “heart goes out” to Hernandez and blamed mayors and members of Congress who “vilify Republicans” for violence against journalists and law enforcement officers. He added, “We cannot give up on this,” and pushed for more prosecutions against violent protesters.