Django Unchained Actress Allegedly Mistaken For Prostitute

Daniele Watts, the African-American actress who appeared in the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained, claims she was handcuffed by ‘racist’ police after they mistook her for a prostitute because she was kissing her white boyfriend.

She is suing the LA police department because she was injured during the incident.

Her boyfriend, celebrity chef Brian James Lucas, who is known as Chef Be*Live, said he was told a neighbor had called the cops when they saw the pair kissing in a car.

“I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted [tattooed] white boy and a hot bootee shorted black girl and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client). This is something that happened to her and her father when she was 16. What an assumption to make!”

Watts posted several photos of the moment she was detained on her Facebook page and described everything that happened in detail.

“Today I was handcuffed and detained by two police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.”

“When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away. A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs. As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that “authority figures” could control my being … my ability to be! I was sitting in that back of this cop car, filled with adrenalin, my wrist bleeding in pain, and it occurred to me, that even there, I still had power over my own spirit. Those cops could not stop me from expressing myself. They could not stop the cathartic tears and rage from flowing out of me. They could not force me to feel bad about myself. The tears I cry for a country that calls itself ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’ and yet detains people for claiming that very right.”