Police apologise after officers pull over black couple 'for driving a car'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/suffolk-police-apology-black-couple-065318888.html

A police force has issued a public apology after a black couple were “made to feel like criminals” by two officers who pulled them over and demanded to see ID because they were “driving a motor vehicle on a road”.

Ingrid Antoine-Onikoyi, 47, and her husband, Falil, 50, were stopped in Ipswich, Suffolk, on Tuesday after “glancing” at a police car parked near the house where they have been staying.

Footage of the incident has sparked outrage on social media, after one of the Suffolk Police officers who stopped them appeared to accuse the couple of “jumping on the bandwagon” of the Black Lives Matter protests.

The couple, from Watford, had been staying at Mrs Antoine-Onikoyi’s mother’s house while their own home was being renovated.

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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 to provide proof of drivers (licence).”

Mrs Antoine-Onikoyi tells him: “You are kidding us right now. You can see why people get upset.”

He replies: “All that I need is proof that you are the driver of that vehicle, and you live here and we are gone.”

The female officer adds: “You have turned something irate that shouldn’t be. You are just jumping on the bandwagon – that’s not okay”, in an apparent reference to recent Black Lives Matter protests.

The male officer then tells the couple “you look suspicious”, adding: “You can argue and you can say ‘why, why, why the whole time?’.”