Telemundo Insists on Playing the Racism Card in Post-Rittenhouse Trial Report

The Telemundo public was dealt a classic case of subliminal messaging between the lines regarding white supremacy during a post-trial report about Kyle Rittenhouse that saved the punchline for the end: he´s only free thanks to a “mostly white jury”.

In a report that aired after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges against him, anchor Julio Vaqueiro underlined racism as the key takeaway from the trial: The young man was “acquitted last Friday in the deaths of two people at a Black Lives Matters protest in Wisconsin,” this while framing the clip with a not too casual “(Rittenhouse says that his case does not have anything to do racism.”

JULIO VAQUEIRO – The case of a young man who was acquitted in two deaths at the Black Lives Matter Wisconsin rally last Friday, claims it has nothing to do racism.

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At a Black Lives Matter event, the 18-year old adolescent shot and killed two people while injuring another.Protest in Kenosha (Wisconsin) August 2020 The jury was composed of white men and found him innocent All allegations against him.

Vaqueiro’s plug of the Rittenhouse trial being about race (the deceased and injured were white), however, pales to the hysteria of his Telemundo colleague Nacho Lozano, who went ballistic over the not-guilty verdict, calling the judge biased, the jury sold-out, and self-defense hogwash. Yet, making the trial about what it was not in the name of a political agenda should have no place in the big-name media from which the Spanish-speaking population gets its news. 

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