Joe Biden: 'I guess I wasn't arrested'

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Joe Biden acknowledged Friday he had not been arrested in apartheid South Africa when visiting Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s, despite previously saying so on the campaign trail.

"I said arrested. I meant I was not able to move," he told CNN. "I guess I wasn't arrested. I was stopped. I wasn't able to go where I wanted to go."

In amending his account in Friday's CNN interview, Biden, a long-time former senator, said he had been visiting South Africa with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, when the "Afrikaners" with "their short pants and their guns" made him get off the plane and moved him in a "different direction" from the rest of the delegation.

According to Biden, South African officials wanted him and the black lawmakers in the delegation to go through two separate doors, but "I made it clear I wasn't going to move," and the officials eventually decided to take all of the lawmakers together to the baggage claim.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/guess-wasnt-arrested-joe-biden-154733937.html

[rzemanfl]

1. Guns make it good enough for me. n/t

[Shermann]

2. "Detained"

...is the word he is searching for

[OhZone]

3. Yup

Next

[squirecam]

4. Being detained is being not free to leave.

I don’t blame his choice of words in that instance.