The Child in Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Was an Actor

The child Bad Bunny handed a Grammy Award to during his Super Bowl halftime performance was not the 5-year-old taken in a recent immigration operation in Minnesota. The moment unfolded at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara when Bad Bunny gave what appeared to be a replica Grammy to a child.

Social media users quickly speculated the boy was Liam Conejo Ramos, who last month was taken by officials in Columbia Heights, Minn., to a detention center in Texas; images of Liam being led away while wearing a Spider-Man backpack had intensified divisions over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

The boy in the performance was a child actor, Lincoln Fox Ramadan, who posted on social media shortly after about his experience. Some viewers thought he might represent a young Bad Bunny. The interaction was presented as a general moment of optimism aimed at young viewers; "Always believe in yourself," Bad Bunny said to the boy at the end of the scene.

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