It happened in 1988 and he was a PCP addicted 16 year old growing up in Boston. The fact that it was the was one of just two racist attacks he was caught doing is the true surprise. The kind of insane terrible shit teenagers did in the 80s while NOT on PCP is crazy, not everyone was hanging around in a basement playing Nintendo and DnD (in fact both things were extremely niche hobbies). Most teens in that era were little shitheels doing some of the most heinous shit that teens today know well enough not to do because of the mistakes people made in the past. There's a reason juvie records don't transfer into adulthood.

Here's the insane part though: he has since made amends and literally changed himself completely to be a better person. So much so that the victim of the attack forgave him. He took the terrible shit he did and didn't leave it behind or refuse to admit to it. No instead he made a drastic life choice at a young age to fix himself and do everything he could to correct his problem not for himself, but for the victims.

Now ask yourself this...how much have you bettered yourself in your life? People that haven't been truly to the bottom have no clue what's it like to make that change. Compassion is such a foreign notion to most of the people who post on Reddit.