The Whipple Building houses ICE within the confines of Fort Snelling, adjacent to the Minnneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. If you’re driving toward downtown Minneapolis on Highway 62 from St. Paul or back the other way, you can peek inside the gates just beyond the Mendota Bridge that spans the Minnesota River where it flows into the Mississippi.
Whipple was one of the hotbeds of the celebrated anti-ICE resistance during Operation Metro Surge and it remains so to a lesser extent today. The nuts were out this weekend. First they turned dildos into a tool of the resistance. This is a scene that tends to belie the heroic tint of local and national coverage of the resistance. What better way to spend a weekend in the Twin Cities?
The dildo brigade. What are they protesting in favor of? Sex toys? It’s impossible to take these weirdos seriously. https://t.co/7pSsIOmIIY
— The Real GOP 🇺🇸 (@TheRealGOP) April 12, 2026
🚨 JUST IN: In the left’s latest attempt to fire back at ICE, they have lined the fencing with DILDOS at the Whipple ICE building in Minnesota
These people belong in insane asylums.
They’re showing solidarity with illegal criminals through DILDOS. 🤡pic.twitter.com/yi3YUHibHd
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 11, 2026
Members of the resistance at Whipple this past Saturday assaulted TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez as she sought to cover their activities. Four of them were arrested by deputies of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.
This is now the second time I have been mobbed and assaulted for filming a protest on U.S. streets.
Today these Minneapolis protesters were chanting that they were “ANTIFA” and proved it, by mobbing and beating me for reporting on a public protest: pic.twitter.com/EOhyg9AFME
— Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) April 11, 2026
You can see the ringleader who assaulted Hernandez in the video below. His name is Chris Ostroushko. DeYanna is his wife. Paige is his daughter.
I’m waking up with a headache and stiff neck this morning due to how violently anti-ICE activist, Chris Ostroushko, shoved me down yesterday.
A second angle shows that he had to be held back by 5 men as he continued to charge at me.
I didn’t speak a word to him all day yet he… pic.twitter.com/LjDx1GMLnF
— Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) April 12, 2026
The family that resists together.
They are clearly all related (including the mom and dad) pic.twitter.com/3jbLN3mfPd
— Guy Squiggs (@GuySquiggs) April 11, 2026
The Star Tribune doesn’t name names until individuals are charged. If they named names, readers could see how the Star Tribune has supported the resistance, for example, with rosy profiles of these nuts. During Metro Surge the Star Tribune ran the story “This suburban dad’s rant became touchpoint of ICE opposition.”” This was Ostroushko’s story according to the Star Tribune:
His average, dad-on-the-soccer-sidelines identity stands in for a lot of folks who are comfortably insulated from ICE’s immigration crackdown, who don’t see themselves as activists. Maybe that’s why the so-called “Minnesota angry man” has inspired others like him to take to the streets.
The Star Tribune portrayed him as one step away from an ICE officer:
Based on appearance, the frowny-faced Mr. Clean, whose name is Chris Ostroushko, looks more like an ICE agent than someone opposing their operations. He does not identify as a woke youth, aged hippie or person of color; he’s not LGBTQ, a mom or a member of any group typically associated with protest movements.
Yes, the Twin Cities are overrun with nuts like Ostroushko. We know his type well. He’s like the reporters, columnists, and editorial writers at the Star Tribune! Star Tribune staffers have the Star Tribune as thier outlet. Ostroushko resorts to Facebook:
Until a few weeks ago, Ostroushko had never stepped into a protest and limited his public screeds to Facebook. “My wife just got fed up with me sitting at home just scrolling and getting angry and arguing with people,” he said.
Just another suburban dad ranting his life away on Facebook.
Reading the rosy Star Tribune profile, the average reader might wonder, what does Mr. Normal do for a living? He seems to have a lot of time on his hands. The closest we get to a clue is this quote from Paige: “You’d never think my dad — a random suburban guy in construction — would go viral.”
Let’s sing along. If he had a hammer…
This quote from the suburban dad himself has not stood the test of time:
Ostroushko and his wife went back to Whipple several subsequent nights, more to observe than advocate. “I’m not the rah, rah, get-in-your-face, yelling-and-screaming type of person,” Ostroushko said. “I like to avoid trouble, even though I look like a person that may like to fight or something. That’s not me.”
This suburban dad is a tad lacking in self-awareness.
What to say about the Star Tribune? Look back in anger.
🚨 The Minnesota Star Tribune ran a giant puff piece on the Chris Ostroushko, the man who attacked @Savsays.
The Editor and CEO of Minnesota’s largest paper is also a former Tim Walz appointee. pic.twitter.com/MazKbngzBb
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 12, 2026
Direct quote from the article:
“I’m not the rah, rah, get-in-your-face, yelling-and-screaming type of person,” Ostroushko said. “I like to avoid trouble, even though I look like a person that may like to fight or something. That’s not me.”
Can’t make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/yHqMsrIMxf
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 12, 2026
The local Twin Cities authorites are hopeless. However, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has acknowledged on X that she is on the case.
Correct https://t.co/KIuIxZznT2
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) April 12, 2026
FOOTNOTE:
This is the guy, William Scott Kelly, who incited the mob against me today. He identified me as I stood at the fence taking BROLL of the ICE facility at today’s protest.
Apparently he’s the same guy who was arrested storming the church in Minneapolis back in January of this… pic.twitter.com/DbkOW1DR9j
— Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) April 11, 2026














