One might think these are just the rough edges around a kid that grew up in a bad neighborhood (Dorchester, MA) that got sanded off once he got a little cash in his pocket. Secondly, reporting around this story has uncovered other incidents like this in Wahlberg’s youth, including one where he threw rocks at an elementary school class and shouted more racial slurs. If this slap on the wrist is slowing Wahlberg’s roll somewhat as a businessman, he should consider himself lucky that he got off so easy in the first place, not complain about it. If you ask me, getting off with only 45 days for BLINDING SOMEBODY is as close to a pardon as you can get. The only ways it’s different are the ways it’s worse: he didn’t just shove the clerk at the store, he broke a board over his head, and he didn’t just leave a red mark on the next guy he ran into, he blinded him, and he was hollering epithets at everybody every step of the way, even once he was in custody. That is awfully similar to the chain of events that led to Mike Brown’s death in Ferguson a couple of months ago. Ironically, I never heard about any of this before the pardon request went public, so Wahlberg’s effort to cleanse his record is having the opposite effect, at least with me.įirstly, consider the crime itself: Wahlberg broke a five-foot stick over a guy’s head while shouting racial slurs at him and robbing his store, and then punched someone else trying to get away from the police. But for some reason he wants the incident stricken entirely from the record, as though it never happened, maybe because his criminal record is interfering with his business interests as a restaurateur or whatever. Wahlberg served 45 days in jail for this little adventure, and has obviously gone on to fame and fortune as one of our most ubiquitous movie stars. The Artist Formerly Known As Marky Mark sent a formal request to outgoing Massachussetts governor Deval Patrick, asking for a formal pardon for a 1988 incident where he beat one man with a stick while robbing a convenience store and punched another while evading the police. It has been a pretty eventful couple of weeks, what with the Sony hacking scandal, the climate deal with China, the president’s executive action on immigration, the opening of Cuba, the fall of Bill Cosby, and the release of my Christmas song, so you can be forgiven if you missed the story where Mark Wahlberg outed himself as one of the worst human beings in public life.
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