10 Miles From Fort Worth, Biden-Mask Banana Man Spooks Texas Home

A man wearing a Joe Biden mask walked up to a home in Watauga, Texas, around 8 p.m. Sunday, ate a banana in front of a Nest doorbell camera, and left without saying a word, according to the New York Post. Watauga police confirmed the encounter happened but said no law was broken.

What happened at the Watauga, Texas, home?

The home sits in Watauga, a town roughly 10 miles outside Fort Worth, the Post reported, citing local station WFAA. The family's Nest doorbell camera recorded a barefoot man walking up to the front door at night. He opened his jacket to show a T-shirt reading "FREEDOM" across the chest, then peeled a banana while nodding his head toward the lens, according to the footage described by the Post. He tapped the camera twice, appearing to try the doorbell, took a bite of the banana while staring into the lens, then turned and walked off into the dark.

Who is the man in the Biden mask?

His identity has not been released. The Post's report says the latex mask was styled to resemble former President Joe Biden, and the shirt he wore looked similar to one Charlie Kirk wore when he was assassinated at Utah Valley University in September 2025. Beyond the mask, the shirt and the banana, nothing in the video identifies who the man is or why he chose that home. Watauga police said officers searched the surrounding neighborhood after the family reported the incident but did not locate him.

Why didn't police make an arrest?

Watauga Police Chief Jim Lewis told WFAA, as relayed by the Post, that officers reviewed the doorbell footage the family turned over and found "no evidence that a criminal offense had occurred." Standing on a porch, eating a banana and wearing a mask are not crimes in Texas unless tied to threats, trespassing with intent, or another statute, and police said none of that applied here.

Lewis put it this way: "Although the individual's choice of attire and snack may have raised a few eyebrows, neither appears to have violated the law at this time. And while we can't explain the costume, the banana, or the apparent political identity crisis, we can confirm that being bizarre is not, in itself, a [crime]."

What did the family do next?

The family called Watauga police after the encounter and handed over the doorbell video, according to the Post's report. Beyond filing the report, no further legal action appears to have been taken, and the case was effectively closed once officers determined no law had been broken. The Post credited the doorbell image to Jessica Mancia, who appears to be connected to the household where the camera is installed.

What happens now in Watauga?

With no criminal charge on the table, the file sits closed for now. Watauga police told WFAA they could not explain the man's motive, his mask, or his choice of a banana as a midnight snack, but said the behavior alone did not meet the threshold for a police response beyond a patrol check of the area. No follow-up visit, charge, or identification has been reported since the chief's statement to WFAA.

For residents in Watauga and the wider Fort Worth area, the takeaway from police is narrow but specific: a masked stranger standing on a porch at night, even one eating fruit and flashing a political slogan, is not automatically a matter for the courts. Homeowners with similar footage are still encouraged to report it, Lewis's comments suggest, even when the outcome is the same — a closed file and an unanswered question about who was behind the mask.

The Post's original report, including the full doorbell video description and the chief's full statement, is available at nypost.com.

Who first reported the story?

The account was first published by the New York Post's Richard Pollina on Oct. 21, 2026, citing WFAA's report out of the Dallas-Fort Worth market. The Post's story credits the doorbell footage to Jessica Mancia and quotes Chief Lewis directly rather than paraphrasing, giving the police department's account equal weight to the family's description of the encounter as "scary."

Does the mask or shirt tie the man to any other incident?

Nothing in the reporting links the Watauga visitor to any other case. The resemblance between his shirt and the one worn by Charlie Kirk during his September 2025 assassination at Utah Valley University is noted only as a visual similarity in the Post's account, not as a confirmed connection. Police have not said whether they are investigating any link, and no other agency has been named in coverage of the incident.