2020 Police Brutality · JSON Structure

2020 Police Brutality Incident Structure

A documented police brutality incident from the 2020 George Floyd protests

Type: object Properties: 11
BrutalityCivil RightsPolicingPublic 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

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{
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  "$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"
    }
  }
}