From Angry Asian Man
Here’s a fun fact about mega movie star Mark Wahlberg: he was once arrested and convicted for beating the shit out of an Asian man, while calling him racial slurs, in a vicious attack that left the victim blind in one eye. Now, the actor/producer is requesting to have the assault conviction officially removed from his record.
Mark Wahlberg applies to have 1988 assault erased (Angry Asian Man)
Back in 1988, long before he was an Oscar-nominated actor, or battling Transformers, or even the rapper known as Marky Mark (YouTube it, kids), Wahlberg was a 16-year-old asshole who tried to steal two cases of beer from a Vietnamese American man, Thanh Lam, outside a convenience store in Dorchester. Wahlberg called Lam racial slurs and hit him over the head with a 5-foot wooden stick, knocking him unconscious.
Later than night, Wahlberg approached another Asian man on the street, Hoa Trinh, and punched him in the eye. He called him, among other things, “gook” and “slant eye.” Trinh lost sight in his right eye.
Wahlberg was arrested and convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a controlled substance, and served 45 days of a 90-day sentence. To this day, he maintains that race did not motivate the attack. And now he has formally applied to the Massachusetts Board of Pardons to erase that ugly, inconvenient little hate crime from his past.
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