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Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point''
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| Posted by Andrew on Tuesday, November 26 @ 10:00:00 EST
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 Criminal Complaint
In the Suffolk County Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1988
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| Mark Wahlberg dated Asian American actress China Chow
after co-starring with her in the 1998 movie The Big Hit. |
At approximately 9:00 p.m. on April 8, 1988 Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese adult
male who resides in Dorchester, traveled by car to 998 Dorchester Avenue,
Dorchester, Massachusetts. At 998 Dorchester Avenue, Thanh Lam left his
car carrying two cases of beer. As he crossed the sidewalk, Mark Wahlberg
attacked Thanh Lam. Wahlberg was carrying a large wooden stick,
approximately five feet long and two to three inches in diameter. Wahlberg
approached Thanh Lam calling him a "Vietnam fucking shit," then hit
him over the head with the stick. Thanh Lam was knocked to the ground
unconscious. Th[e] stick broke in two and was later recovered from the
scene. Thanh Lam was treated overnight at Boston City Hospital.
After police arrested Wahlberg later on the night of April 8, 1988, Wahlberg
was informed of his rights and returned to the scene of 998 Dorchester
Avenue. In the presence of two police officers, he stated: "You don't
have to let him identify me, I'll tell you now that's the mother-fucker who's
head I split open," or words to that effect.
As a police officer arrived at the scene of 998 Dorchester Avenue, Wahlberg
and two other youths who were with him fled up Dorchester Avenue toward Pearl
Street.
Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 8, 1988, Hoa Trinh, an adult Vietnamese male
who resides in Dorchester, was standing several blocks away from 998 Dorchester
Avenue, near the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Pearl Street. Hoa Trinh
was not aware of the altercation outside of 998 Dorchester Avenue.
Wahlberg ran up to Hoa Trinh, put his arm around Hoa Trinh's shoulder, and
said: "Police coming, police coming, let me hide." After a
police cruiser passed, Wahlberg punched Trinh in the eye, causing him to fall to
the ground.
Police arrived and Hoa Trinh identified Wahlberg as the person who punched
him. Wahlberg was placed under arrest and read his rights.
Thereafter he made numerous unsolicited racial statements about
"gooks" and "slant-eyed gooks." After being returned
to 998 Dorchester Avenue, Wahlberg identified Thanh Lam as the person he hit
over the head with a stick.
 Trinh lost one of his "slanted" eyes due to the attack.
Wahlberg plead guilty to two counts of criminal contempt, was sentenced to two
years imprisonment, and was released after 45 days. Although Wahlberg
describes his incarceration as a "turning point" in his life, to this
day he continues to deny that race played a role in either attack.
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, November 29 @ 00:23:04 EST | | wow!!!!!! I am appalled!!!!!!!! |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by rover on Saturday, November 30 @ 14:42:13 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | I read something about this before and actually this doesn't surprise me. It's funny how people will make exceptions for some while hating the rest of the group. According to the complaint, Wahlberg didn't even know the people whom he attacked. I'm also trying hard to remember something here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same guy who back in the late 80s, made a rap song about some WM in Boston who killed his pregnant wife and blamed it on a black guy? If so, it makes you wonder how Wahlberg could make a song about racism yet perpetuate it himself.
I think that it's funny how China Chow could date a guy with obvious anti-Asian sentiments. Since Chow is hapa, did Wahlberg ignore her "Asianness" for the white side? And for China Chow , how does she see herself? This has relevance in that if she really doesn't see herself as Asian but merely exploits it for publicity, then her attitude toward her Asian brothers and sisters (and other people of color for that matter) will be quite unflattering. |
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American Justice (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, December 07 @ 18:54:59 EST | Wen Ho Lee spent nine months in prison and solitary confinement for a crime that was never proven.
Mark Wahlberg spent 45 days in a prison for violent crime and blinding a man. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by dac on Thursday, December 12 @ 04:43:52 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | F**K Mark Wahlberg! And F**K his girlfriend if she didn't criticize him!
As half Chinese and half Vietnamese, I'm offended, and I swear not to watch any of his movies.
I don't care for Dumberg anyways! His movie sucks. I went to watch a movie with him and Chow Yun Fat. I only watched the movie because of Chow Yun Fat!
And his only ONE hit wonder sucked too!
AZN Pride! Monterey Park, Cali. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by argh2003 on Wednesday, December 25 @ 04:37:42 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.egoldwish.com | Hm... man, I'm a peaceful person. But I get really piss and mean when someone use hate violence like this mark wahlberg guy. If indeed this mark guy attack one of my friend that I know, I swear i cut his throat.
It's not right for him to walk out prison after 45 days. I guess money talk, and the rest of the matter is pretend as nothing happen.
I'm appologize for anyone that do not like my comment above about cut someone throat. But that is how I express about my anger toward racism, and especially someone use violence hate.
Peace out. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by RedPikachu on Monday, January 20 @ 17:30:43 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.geocities.com/miyowmixx | | I think that Mark wahlberg SUCKS. After reading this, I refuse to support him. I also refuse to China Chow. I rhink her parents forgot to teach her a few things. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by tiggs on Wednesday, February 05 @ 04:33:23 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | 45 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by ShortyPain on Tuesday, April 15 @ 15:46:36 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Man I never heard about this shit before! ERRR! Why should I have? It doesn't offend us Asians does it?! I mean it's only coming from a white male and he most really like Asians because he dated them right??? That couldn't possibly be hatred...
Slanted Eye Gook? How's about starving cracker? Or washed up honky? |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by percepti0n on Tuesday, June 17 @ 16:24:32 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | While the violence and brutality of these attacks appal me, the fact that they were carried out on vietnamese people seems to me to be beside the point. i myself am vietnamese, but do not consider myself solely 'viet'. when i see this i do not see 'a white guy' beating the crap out of some 'viet guys', i see a sad and nearly hopeless situation, where one human hurts another out of unreason, madness and ignorance. to take this as an affront to just the 'asian race' is to do an injustice. when these things happen everyone is hurt, do not hate this guy for what he did to 'asians'; cry for this guy because of what he did to humanity. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by superbanana on Saturday, July 05 @ 07:04:06 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | hi. i am a korean-american and truthfully reading about something that happened 15 years ago when mr. mark wahlberg was still young does not make me hate him.
i repeat: this was 15 years ago. its prt of his past. when you grow up in an area where this is normal, you cant expect him to act different then most of his friends. we are molded by society.
he admits he was wrong and said he wanted to change and as far as i can tell, he has so leave the guy alone and give him a break.
i may be a "gook" but at least i can forgive the guy.
all respect to mark wahlberg and i hope these silly stories stop being posted on this site. its not fair. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by tyking on Tuesday, December 13 @ 02:53:25 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | He was 16 at the time, better just give the guy a break. everybody deserve a second chance. |
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by rockysullivan on Friday, May 18 @ 00:53:06 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Of coarse he's bigoted and violent. This guy’s a street tough from Boston's Irish ghetto. Did you really think he was going to be a saint?
And while he is definitely some sort of sadist, I doubt he truly hates all Asians. Some people use ethnic slurs, not necessarily to display a hatred for every member of a race, but simply because they are the most effective insults against a specific individual or an ethnically exclusive subculture.
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Repentence (Score: 1)
by sharlenek on Sunday, May 20 @ 04:22:49 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I'll preface by saying that I'm not making excuses for his actions, and it doesn't seem he was ever held accountable by justice for his actions.
But it seems people are ignoring the date on this which is 1988. That's almost 30 years ago. At the time he was dating China Chow, that was 20 years ago.
There's no hope for the correction of racism if our convictions define the acts of racism by an individual not only as irreparable, but without rehabilitation.
I have huge problems with the idea that after 20 years into adulthood, that from acts as a teen, he couldn't have changed, let alone that after 30.
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by GeorgeNYC on Monday, July 02 @ 01:27:34 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is absolutely upsetting. My dear Asian people, please do yourselves a favor and pass this info along. The worse thing you can do is pretend it did not happen.
Boycot his movies!
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Re: Mark Wahlberg's ''Turning Point'' (Score: 1)
by TigerClaw_247 on Saturday, November 03 @ 11:52:37 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I am positively outraged at this crap.
He dates Asian girls, whitewashes them, and then goes on to attack this poor Asian man for no justifiable reason. He should be happy that that man was'nt ME......
He'd be in HUGE trouble, and I do'nt mean in a legalistic way.......
Time and time again, our poor Asian sisters are falling in love with these white ghosts, these ganjin rice chasers.
Like this moron, Mark Wahlberg.
Someone should brand this statement on his a**- "Being white and dating an Asian girl does not disqualify me from being a racist."
Make the loser Jewish bastard walk naked in the friggin cold all over Chinatown with that statement branded on his a**, while all the youngbloods spit in his face andf knock his head all over the street with fists and soles of their feet.
And when he's done wimpering and wailing over the humuliation, file a civil suit against him and sue him till he's homeless on the street like a bum.
45 days in jail isnt going to do it. More action against this fool is needed so ALL white boys get the point......
....Stop disrespecting us Asians, especially our Asian sisters. Doing so is like playing with fire.
Nuff said. |
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