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'Watch Dogs' Game Crassly References Trayvon Martin - Why?

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"One of Watch Dogs' gameplay mechanics sees protagonist Aiden Pearce able to hack into the cellphones of passers by and bring up their personal information, such as their name, age, income, occupation, hobbies and criminal record. The majority of these details are randomly generated, though some NPCs have been purposely put into the game by Ubisoft, such as actress and part-time Ubisoft representative Aisha Tyler.

With that being said, we're not sure of which category the hooded, black NPC named "Kavon Fortin" falls into, though we're hoping its the former as if it's the latter it appears to be an horrendously distasteful reference to Trayvon Martin."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Paul Tamburro / Crave Online:

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