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In reply to the discussion: Mark Wahlberg Wants His Record Expunged So He Can Be a Cop [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)Wahlberg had been in trouble 2025 times with the Boston Police Department in his youth. By age 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances.[9][10] At 15, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for his involvement in two separate incidents of harassing African-American children (the first were siblings, and the second incident was a group of black school children on a field trip), by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets.[11] At 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious while calling him "Vietnam fucking shit".[12] That same day Wahlberg also attacked a second Vietnamese man named Hoa Trinh, punching him in the face with such force that it left him permanently blind in one eye.[11][12] [13] According to court documents regarding these assaults, investigators noted that Wahlberg "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'." [12][13]
For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to two years in Suffolk County Deer Island House of Correction. He ultimately served only 45 days of his sentence.[12][14] In another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack.
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