Posted on 12/12/2014 2:33:25 PM PST by Citizen Zed
According to court records, in 1988 a 16-year-old Mr Wahlberg brutally attacked a Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam with a stick while spewing racial epithets and knocking him unconscious. Seeing police, Mr Wahlberg fled and found Hoa Trinh, another Vietnamese man. He put his hand around Mr Trinh's shoulder and asked the man to help him hide.
After the police cars had passed, Mr Wahlberg punched Mr Trinh in the eye, permanently blinding him. According to the police report, during his arrest the future actor used several anti-Asian slurs. He served 45 days of a three-month sentence, all while maintaining that the crimes were not racially motivated.
Today, however, Mr Wahlberg says he's a changed man - who wants a liquor licence for his restaurant.
"I am deeply sorry for the actions that I took on the night of 8 April, 1988, as well as for any lasting damage that I may have caused the victims," he writes in the petition. "Since that time, I have dedicated myself to becoming a better person and citizen so that I can be a role model to my children and others."
A pardon would legally free Mr Wahlberg up for more than just a liquor licence for his family's Boston-based restaurant, Wahlburgers.
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Wealthy privilege.
Those actions are not something you just grow out of.
The details not only make me hope he isn’t pardoned, but make me doubt I will watch his movies.
Whatta Mench.
Are you saying that it’s impossible to repent and that nobody is capable of personal growth?
If I’m thinking of the right guy, he plays the part of a hot headed detective on “Blue Bloods” on Friday nights on CBS.
Reading the article, it sounds like he has not contacted the victims and made amends. I’d leave it up to a simple process, ask the victims. Sounds like he should have engaged them in some way.
How in the heck did he end up a big star?
Afford him the same judgement as Paula Dean got, or worse. She wasn’t physical or nearly as abusive and look how she was shunned .
I have liked him and his brother’s movies/shows but it’s getting out of hand with Wahlberg reality shows.
Enough already !
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Joe Biden recalls slamming local bully's head into a counter and threatening to kill him
You’re thinking of brother Donnie.
I haven’t seen Blue Bloods, but if a Wahlberg is in it, that’s likely Donnie. Mark is a big movie star.
Thanks for correction. Got my actors with the same last names confused...........
Several articles have been written and some posted here about this issue. Seems like it has become fashionable these days for journalists to be terribly lazy and never even ask the most obvious questions that any slightly curious reader would like answered.
“Whatta Mench.”
If you mean “mensch” this jerk is no mensch.
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I think that's Mark's brother.
'White privilege' pardon? He's more likely to get a 'low IQ' pardon!
They have burned up their 15 minutes and just don't know it yet. "Wahlburgers" (cable tv show)didn't last much longer than "Big Smo"
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