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Police apologise after officer accused black woman of 'jumping on the bandwagon'

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A middle-aged black couple were stopped by two police officers who demanded they show their IDs because they were "driving a motor vehicle on a road".

Footage of the incident sparked outrage on social media after it showed one officer apparently accusing the couple of "jumping on the bandwagon" of the Black Lives Matter protests.

Suffolk Police have since issued a public apology to Ingrid Antoine-Oniyoke, 47, and her 50-year-old husband Falil Oniyoke. The pair were pulled over in Ipswich on Tuesday after "glancing" at a police car parked near Mrs Antoine-Oniyoke's mum's house.

In the video, a male officer says: "At the end of the day, whether it looks funny or not, you were driving a motor vehicle on a road, so therefore I am requiring you

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