Django Unchained Actress Daniele Watts Accuses LAPD Of Racism And Brutality ... After She's Busted For Having Sex In Her Car

Django Unchained and Weeds star Daniele Watts was arrested after police reportedly caught her having sex in public with her boyfriend, Brian James Lucas, but the couple insist they were just kissing, and that they were targeted because Watts is black ... AND because cops thought she was a hooker! Police said they received a 911 call, and Officer Sally Madera told reporters, "
There was an indication on the radio call that a male white and female black were involved in a sexual act inside a Mercedes with the vehicle door open." Eyewitnesses from the nearby Directors Guild office told police that the man was sitting in the seat, the woman was straddling him and one eyewitness told cops the couple cleaned themselves up with a tissue afterwards. EW! Lucas, who is a celebrity chef, said in a Facebook post that he believes LAPD officers came up to them because they "saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a HO & a TRICK."

The cops then demanded to see their IDs, at which point Lucas complied but Watts refused. Watts accused cops of targeting her because of her race, and when the situation got even more heated, apparently she tried to play the fame card. The actress stormed off, but the cops caught up with her, cuffed her and took her to a local station. “Two people were briefly detained, but it was revealed no crime had been committed,” Medera added. Watts claims the handcuffs were so tight they cut the skin on her wrists and made her bleed. Lucas added that the couple have hired a lawyer and they're planning on filing a complaint with the LAPD. The couple have made a number of TV appearances over the last 24 hours, and Lucas even posted video of the incident.

Daniele's full statement!


Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 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 adrenaline, 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. Yes, they had control over my physical body, but not my emotions. My feelings. My spirit was, and still is FREE.

I will continue to look any “authority figure” in the eye without fear. NO POLICE OFFICER OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ME. WE ARE EQUALS. I KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS BE FREE BECAUSE THAT IS THE NATURE OF MY SPIRIT.

And moreover, I deeply enjoyed connecting with the cops who detained me. I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes. 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. Today I exist with courage, knowing that I am blessed to have experienced what I did today. All of those feelings, no matter how uncomfortable. These feelings are what builds my internal strength, my ability to grow through WHATEVER may happen to me. That internal knowing is what guides me in this world. Not the law, not fear, not mistrust of government or cops or anything else. In this moment there is a still small voice whispering to me. It says: You are love. You are free. You are pure.