Fred Trump was arrested after a 1,100-man brawl involving Ku Klux Klan members, The New York Times reported in 1927.
Former President Donald Trump was indicted on Thursday and arraigned in New York on Tuesday, making him the first US president to be charged with a crime.
However, he’s not the first person in his family to be arrested, according to archived news reports.
His father, real estate mogul Fred Trump, was detained by the police twice: Once in 1927 and another time in 1976, per newspaper articles published in those years.
Trump, the former president, wasn’t born yet when the first arrest occurred, but he was 30 and working for his father’s firm at the time of the second, The ‘s Gillian Brockell reported.1927 arrest: Ku Klux Klan riot, New York City
Fred Trump was arrested in 1927 during a Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens on Memorial Day, per The New York Times.
That day, 1,000 Klansmen marched in Queens to decry the deaths of two Italian fascists in the city, The Times wrote. They’d earlier littered the streets with handbills accusing the police of beating “Native-born Protestant Americans,” and called for residents to “take your stand in defense of the fundamental principles of your country.”
“Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon when native born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school, and one language, the English language; also when they march peaceably through the streets in honor of their forefathers,” the handbills read, per The Times.
The Klansmen were met by some 100 policemen, and both parties clashed in a “free-for-all battle,” The Times wrote.
