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2020 Police Brutality Incident Structure
2020 Police Brutality Incident Structure
A documented police brutality incident from the 2020 George Floyd protests
Type: object
Properties: 11
Brutality Civil Rights Policing Public Data
Incident is a JSON Structure definition published by 2020 Police Brutality, describing 11 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.
Properties
id
name
description
date
date_text
state
city
geolocation
tags
links
edit_at
Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#
JSON Structure
{
"$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/2020-police-brutality/refs/heads/main/json-structure/2020-police-brutality-incident-structure.json",
"name": "Incident",
"description": "A documented police brutality incident from the 2020 George Floyd protests",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Unique identifier for the incident (format: state-city-number)",
"example": "nm-albuquerque-1"
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Brief title or summary of the incident",
"example": "Student journalist struck by foam bullet"
},
"description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Detailed description of what occurred during the incident",
"example": "A student journalist was struck by a foam bullet while covering protests near downtown."
},
"date": {
"type": "date",
"description": "Date the incident occurred (ISO 8601 format)",
"example": "2020-06-01"
},
"date_text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Human-readable date description",
"example": "June 1st"
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"description": "US state abbreviation where the incident occurred",
"example": "NM"
},
"city": {
"type": "string",
"description": "City where the incident occurred",
"example": "Albuquerque"
},
"geolocation": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Latitude and longitude coordinates of the incident location",
"example": "35.0844,-106.6504"
},
"tags": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Categorical tags describing the type of incident or force used",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"example": [
"foam-bullet",
"journalist",
"protester"
]
},
"links": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Source URLs documenting or referencing the incident",
"items": {
"type": "uri"
},
"example": [
"https://example.com/news-article",
"https://twitter.com/example/status/123456"
]
},
"edit_at": {
"type": "uri",
"description": "Direct link to edit this incident record on GitHub",
"example": "https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/edit/main/reports/New%20Mexico.md"
}
}
}