Why is everyone talking about Biden confronting a man called 'CornPop'?

Biden says he faced off gang leader armed with a razor blade in 1962 – a former state president of the NAACP supports his yarn

The year was 1962, and Joe Biden, a swimming pool security guard in his early 20s, had a problem. A tough guy by the name of CornPop, leader of a Delaware gang called “the Romans”, was waiting for him outside the pool.

In Biden’s telling, CornPop was a “bad dude” who “ran a bunch of bad boys”, was armed with a straight-razor and backed by other gang members. And he was threatening to “cut” the future vice-president.

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