https://archive.is/wip/JxAr8 >Wahlberg’s criminal history was first disclosed by Shaun Assael, whose 1993 story in The Village Voice revealed that prosecutors alleged that the Bostonian had “demonstrated a continuing pattern of terrorizing people of color.” > >The actor's pardon request includes a description of the April 1988 incident during which he attempted to steal two cases of beer from Tranh Lam as he departed a convenience store in Dorchester (where Wahlberg grew up). Wahlberg hit Lam over the head with a large wooden stick, knocking the victim unconscious. As he fled the crime scene, Wahlberg punched a second man, Hoa Trinh, in the face. > >Prosecutors reported that he called Lam a “Vietnam fucking shit” at the outset of the attack. When Boston cops apprehended Wahlberg and brought him back to the scene of the assault, he told officers, “You don’t have to let him identify me, I’ll tell you now that’s the mother-fucker whose head I split open.” Investigators reported that Wahlberg also made “numerous unsolicited racial statements about ‘gooks’ and ‘slant-eyed gooks.’”