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Repository containing evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests

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Bumps [nltk](https://github.com/nltk/nltk) from 3.4.5 to 3.6.6. Changelog Sourced from nltk's changelog. Version 3.7 2022-02-09 Improve and update the NLTK team page on nltk.org (#2855, #2941) Drop support for Python 3.6,...

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Attempting to fetch data from the API now returns markup indicating the account has been suspended.

e.g. `mobile.twitter.com/person/id` should become `twitter.com/person/id` Consider other handling to clean requests by removing unnecessary URL params. Can we standardize http vs https?

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All videos on-site seem to be missing. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10990130/96007189-7e309e80-0dfb-11eb-89be-49f136899859.png)

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**Goal:** instead of maintaining 2 identical lists of tags (one with more info/sub-lists), centralize into 1 and auto-generate the other. **Acceptance Criteria:** 1. Refactor the `../tools/text_formatter.py` and `../docs/possible_tags.md` files so...

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Docs
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Good 1st issue

We have a number of incidents where zip-ties are used in harmful ways. We would love to get all of those tagged, but it's a big undertaking. So if there's...

Incident Update
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For now most links are actively and viewable, however we will inadvertently get dead links, such as those reported in https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/pull/392 While "dead" the data isn't lost as it will...

Engineering

I've had some issues when trying to automatically download all videos. For example, on [mn-minneapolis-28](https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/blob/master/reports/Minnesota.md) there is a [link to a two hour long YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAa5xb6JitI). While there is a...

The data validator from https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/pull/745 works on branches that are in this repo, but not on branches in forks of this repo (non-maintainer PRs). The solution is to make https://github.com/ubershmekel2020pb...

Engineering

Something I notice is that we are not doing a good job of separating the evidence of the incident with the evidence of the accountability. I recommend creating a specific...