Mark Wahlberg Beating Victim Says Actor Did Not Blind Him in Attack
LatestThe man who Mark Wahlberg viciously assaulted when he was a teenager said he forgives the actor for the 1988 crime and also revealed Wahlberg did not leave him blinded in one eye during the attack, as was previously widely reported.
Wahlberg was arrested and spent 45 days in jail for crimes that included beating Hoa Trinh, a Vietnamese immigrant. Wahlberg tried to steal cases of alcohol from a man, Thanh Lam, at a convenience store. He used racial slurs during the robbery and beat Lam over the head with a stick before fleeing the scene. That’s when he encountered Trinh, who he also assaulted, punching him the face. NBC reports that despite shouting a bunch of racist, vile shit at his victims, Wahlberg claimed race had nothing to do with attack. A court disagreed because OBVIOUSLY RACE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THAT SHIT:
Court documents indicate that in Boston, on April 8, 1988, Wahlberg attacked two Vietnamese-American men, knocking one man — Thanh Lam — unconscious with a five-foot-long wooden stick, and punching another — Hoa Trinh.
Investigators noted Wahlberg made several unsolicited racial statements about “g—ks” and “slant-eyed g—ks” at the time. He was arrested, charged with attempted murder, convicted of assault, and served 45 days in prison. Wahlberg was 16-years old, admitted to being intoxicated, and insisted race had nothing to do with his crime.
But his assault conviction was accompanied by another, for contempt for court. That stemmed from a series of attacks he committed two years earlier, chasing and hurling rocks and racial epithets at African-American school children. A court prohibited him from assaulting, threatening, or intimidating anyone because of race or national origin; the 1988 investigation found him in violation of the order, meaning the court believed race did play a role in the attacks on Lam and Trinh.
Wahlberg was tried as an adult for the crimes against Trinh and Lam and given a two year jail sentence with 21 months suspended. He only served 45 days before being released. Recently,
Wahlberg has been working hard to get a pardon for those crimes so he can win an Oscar for his new role in The Gambler this year get a concessionaire license for his Wahlberg’s burger chain. (Another terrifying theory being floated is that Wahlberg wants the pardon so he can someday become a cop.)