Actress Danièle Watts, who appeared in "Django Unchained," was handcuffed by police after being mistaken for a prostitute while showing some affection to her husband.
The African-American actress took to Facebook and claimed that while she was on her cell phone, she planted a few kisses on her white husband, Brian James Lucas, and was shortly approached by police officers, TMZ reported.
According to Los Angeles police, the officers were responding to a citizen's complaint about indecent exposure, saying that an African-American female and a white male were involved in sexual acts inside of their silver Mercedes Benz.
"Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers ... after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place," she wrote on Thursday. "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."
The actress's husband also took to Facebook to clear up the incident and wrote, "From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client). So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of the cop car until they could figure out who she was. In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist, which was truly NOT COOL!!! Of course, they had to let her go eventually cuz we weren't a threat to anyone."
However, a source told reporters that the cops were called because an eyewitness saw Watts sitting on her husband's lap and stated that the couple were having sex in the passenger's seat of their car with the door open near CBS studios in the San Fernando Valley.
A man in a business suit reportedly told the couple to "stop putting on a show." Officers asked Watts to show ID, however the actress refused.
"I have every right to say no and if you'd like to demand it, you can take me down to the court office and I can make a scene about it," Watts told ABC News. "And you know what? I have a publicist and I work as an actor at [CBS Studios]. If you'd like my ID you can say I am resisting arrest."
Watts has appeared on "How I Met Your Mother," "Criminal Minds" and "Castle."
"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," she wrote on Facebook.
An internal investigation has been launched by the LAPD.
