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The PSNI is investigating so-called vigilante videos circulating online, which target people from ethnic minorities in Belfast.

The social media videos show people being challenged on the street on the basis of their ethnicity asking them to produce identification.

In the videos, those from ethnic minorities are warned to stay away from parks, public spaces and to stay away from children.

Police believe the vigilante groups may be connected to an investigation into reports of an assault on a man in the centre of Belfast last month, which is linked to videos like these. Nina Briggs from Migrant Workers Union NI said these vigalante videos have been going on for a number of weeks.

"We've been facing very similar kind of vigilante and paramilitary style violence

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