At the age of 16, Wahlberg was convicted of assault against two Vietnamese men, with police reports stating that at the time of his arrest he had used racial slurs against the victims. After pleading guilty, Wahlberg was sentenced to two years in prison but served only 45 days of his term.
In 2014, Wahlberg requested to be pardoned for the crime and issued an apology, with Liu expressing his feelings about the matter four years later as he tweeted: Let me get this straight, Mark Wahlberg beat a helpless Vietnamese man with a stick until he passed out when he was 16, and is attempting to get the courts to grant him an official pardon on the basis that he s turned his life around ?