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In this still from a video of the aftermath, medics tend to a fatally wounded Jason Walker as he lies near the back tires of a Ford F-150 that was driven by an off-duty county sheriff's lieutenant who shot him. A 'black box' in the truck that records impacts, would not register if the vehicle hit a pedestrian, an expert said.
Jason Walker with his son Christian. Walker was shot to death by an off-duty sheriff's deputy Saturday. His killing has prompted outrage that the deputy hasn't been arrested.
Jason Walker with his son Christian. Walker was shot to death by an off-duty sheriff's deputy Saturday. His killing has prompted outrage that the deputy hasn't been arrested.
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“In general, I have not seen an event being recorded for a vehicle impacting a pedestrian,” said Colin Wein, a Colorado-based accident reconstruction expert who's handled hundreds of accident investigations involving EDRs.
At issue is whether Jason Walker, who was shot and killed on Bingham Drive on Saturday by off-duty Cumberland County Sheriff’s Lt. Jeffrey Hash, was struck by Hash’s Ford F-150 SuperCrew truck prior to being shot.
A witness who attempted to render aid to the dying Walker said the truck struck Walker before the shooting.
The lieutenant told dispatchers in a 911 call made public earlier this week that Walker jumped onto the hood of his pickup, tore off a windshield wiper and busted his windshield.
"I just had to shoot him," Hash said in the call.
On Sunday, Police Chief Gina Hawkins said in a press conference that the F-150’s EDR “did not record any impact with any person or thing,” apparently disputing the witness' claim.
“I would say (Hawkins') quote is true … but it doesn't conclude anything because it would not have likely recorded it,” Wein said.
Wein said the "black box", or airbag control module — first appearing in cars in 2000 and becoming more widespread in 2012 — is a device that monitors acceleration and determines when to deploy airbags.
In order to capture data, the impact needs to meet a specific threshold, otherwise, it will not record he said.
“The condition would have to be that, for a general vehicle, the person was large enough to cause the vehicle to slow down most likely over 5 mph,” Wein said. “I'm not going to say that would never happen, I just don't see how that would happen.”
Upon impact, Wein said, the EDR would then capture things like speed, accelerator pedal application, brake pedal application and engine speed. He said the Ford F-150 SuperCrew doesn't appear to monitor steering or swerving.
But whether Hash struck Walker as he crossed the street or not, the fact remains, Fayetteville activist Shaun McMillan said, that the slaying of the single father within feet of the home in which he grew up is unjustified.
"Please don't fall into the trap of debating about 'black boxes' or witness credibility ... when the facts we have known since Saturday obviously warranted an arrest," McMillan said. "I am just appealing to everyone to focus on the value of Jason's life, and the fact that there's no morally comprehensible explanation for Jason's death.
Military & Crime Editor F.T. Norton can be reached at fnorton@fayobserver.com.
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In the West, tech giant Tencent is not yet a household name. While its size and acquisitions have made frequent headlines, its presence has remained understated relative to competitors like Amazon and Google, with the name occasionally peppered into conversations as an example of China’s burgeoning influence on technology and entertainment around the world.
But in China, Tencent is everywhere. It’s behind the nation’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, with over 1.2 billion monthly active users. It’s the behemoth that created QQ.com, one of the country’s largest web portals and the world’s fourth most visited website . And with Tencent Music, it also owns the majority of China’s music services, with 841 million active users .
It’s also China’s — and the world’s — biggest game company. And with a growing presence internationally, we recently decided to take a closer look at how it operates and what it owns.
Beginning with Riot Games in 2011, Tencent has been steadily acquiring an extensive portfolio of international game studios. And as one of the largest tech conglomerates in the world, it also wants to build the metaverse — to construct a sprawling, digital universe that doubles up as a diverse gaming platform, made up of various IPs. During the tech behemoth’s third-quarter results earning call in 2021, its usually reticent CEO, Pony Ma Huateng, spoke about the company’s vision for the metaverse , saying that Tencent currently has the resources to develop its version of the idea. To Tencent, that path can be chartered via a mix of video games and a gamified social media experience — or a real world experience that’s supplemented by both augmented reality and virtual reality.
The firm has begun laying the foundation of this project, with one of its first steps being founding a new studio under one of its gaming subsidiaries, TiMi Studio Group. Codenamed “F1,” this studio will span across China, the United States, Canada, and Singapore, and it’s the company’s first team under a new “Future” label.
Of course, Tencent is far from the only tech giant looking to build a macrocosm of virtual services and environments; NetEase, Epic Games, and Facebook’s parent company Meta, among others, are all gunning to forge their own hyperconnected virtual worlds. What sets Tencent apart from these corporations is its size and ubiquity across industries, with investments that include social media, games, television, cinema, music, e-commerce, medical technology, and comics.
When it comes to the games part of that, Tencent’s dominance is prodigious yet stealthy. By revenue, it’s the world’s largest video game publisher, with approximately $6.7 billion in game revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020. Online games make up a major portion of its profits at 32% , and many of those products target mobile players in the domestic Chinese market. These include Peacekeeper Elite, which is the Chinese version of PUBG Mobile , and the wildly popular Honor of Kings , which is the dominant MOBA game in China. Then there is Riot Games’ League of Legends , a game that is now Tencent’s flagship PC game in China, and whose studio was also completely bought out by Tencent, with the firm finalizing its purchase of Riot Games in 2015. The company’s streak of game industry investments has continued at a rapid pace; research firm Niko Partners estimated that, on average, for most of the first half of 2021, Tencent closed one games deal every 2.5 days .
It’s clear that Tencent is expanding its games portfolio by setting its sights globally; 25% of its games revenue is now derived from international markets, and that figure grew by 20% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2021. Tightening regulations from the Chinese government on its local gaming industry — alongside those of film, popular entertainment, and tech industries — have also contributed to Tencent’s push outside of China, despite the country having the world’s biggest gaming market . Yet the narrative around Tencent’s rapid expansion is often remarked upon with a sense of unease, fueled by anti-Chinese rhetoric. Take for instance how Tencent’s investments have drawn the scrutiny of even the U.S. government, while Epic Games’ CEO, Tim Sweeney, felt the need to address the company’s investment on Twitter, including rumors
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