“Said his mother recalled that as a teenager, he "got arrested standing on the porch with a Black family" when protesters opposed desegregation of a nearby Delaware neighborhood. "And I said, 'Yeah, Mom, I remember that.”
What FactCheck.org found
There is no evidence Biden was ever arrested, though news stories at the time do corroborate that there were incidents near Biden’s home in Delaware in which white neighbors protested a Black family moving in.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 26 April 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 April 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “No Evidence”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- news.grabien.comhttps://news.grabien.com/story/biden-claims-he-got-arrested-standing-on-the-porch-with-a-…
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