News about Thanh Lam

Mark Wahlberg has been found guilty of TWICE, a racial hate crime

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 27, 2023
On Sunday, the cast was released the awards, 35 years after he was found guilty of assaulting two Asian men. When living in Boston in the 1980s as a child, Ted was twice charged for race-related crimes. In 1986, Wahlberg, then 15, was charged alongside three others for pelting black children with rocks while yelling "kill the n******." The group only stopped when an ambulance driver arrived, with Wahlberg harrassed another group of predominantly black children at the beach the next day. He was later charged in 1988 with attaching two Vietnamese men while high on the drug PCP, while also referring to his victims as a 'Vietnam f***ing s***.' Thanh Lam unconscious with a five-foot wooden stick before striking his second victim, Johnny Trinh, in the eye later the same day. Both men were found to be racist slurs, according to officers, and Wahlberg was found guilty of infringing on his victims' civil rights. He and two of his acquaintances were indicted on civil rights injunction, but the case was settled in court quickly. He was also charged with attempted murder but pleaded guilty to criminal charges, despite the fact that he was inebriated and the assaults had no evidence connected to race. Wahlberg was found to be in contempt of court because of the civil rights injunction, which barred him from attacking, threatening, or bullying someone because of their ethnicity or nationality. The actor was sentenced to two years in jail, but the Vietnamese men's assault took place 45 days into the prison term. He then attempted to request a pardon for the second time in 2014 and have it erased from his criminal record.

Following a previous hate crime conviction, Mark Walhberg was banned from presenting the SAG Award to the Asian audience

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 27, 2023
Mark Wahlberg has been chastised for presenting an award to the predominately Asian cast of Everything Everywhere At Once at the 2023 SAG Awards on Sunday, 35 years after he was found guilty of assaulting two Asian men. Johnny Trinh, a Vietnamese-American man who punched; and Thanh Lam, who struck out with a wooden stick, were both found guilty.

Mark Wahlberg, a devout Catholic, says that faith is "not popular" in Hollywood

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 23, 2023
Ted, 51, (left and right) said he had always discussed his faith, but he didn't want to stuff it down someone's throat,' but he added, "he doesn't want to jam it down anybody's throat." As he appeared on the Today Show on Ash Wednesday, which begins 40 days of Lent, Wahlberg said Catholicism had enabled him to concentrate on being a 'better version of himself.' On Ash Wednesday, a holy day of praying and fasting, Wahlberg appeared on the show with a black cross on his forehead.