Law in Popular Culture
Bad Bunny’s ‘love conquering hate’ message at Super Bowl reiterated by judge sentencing assaulter
Rapper and singer Bad Bunny performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
The reverberations of rapper and singer Bad Bunny’s vibrant 2026 Super Bowl halftime show were still being felt, as a Miami judge quoted him while sentencing an attacker shown on surveillance video assaulting a customer inside a store.
Florida Judge David Young found Guillermo Zaldivar guilty of attacking Manuel Casabielle inside a Walgreens in the Brickell neighborhood in Miami.
Last summer, Casabielle, who is elderly, was in the store to pick up medication and overheard a commotion involving Zaldivar. As Casabielle attempted to de-escalate the situation, Zaldivar grabbed him by the throat and pushed him into a store rack, causing him to fall, according to coverage on NBCMiami.com.
Young, who sentenced Zaldivar to 364 days behind bars, ordered him to complete an anger management course. While delivering his remarks, the judge referenced Bad Bunny, whose Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2 million viewers between 8:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Eastern time in the United States, according to USA Today and the Nielsen Co., a media audience measurement company.
“I’m thinking about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl appearance, where you talk about love conquering hate,” Young said. “And that extends across all societies.”
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