Cops Handcuffed ‘Django Unchained’ Actress Thinking She Was A Hooker For Kissing Her Husband

Actresss Danièle Watts says the LAPD handcuffed and detained her after watching her talk on the phone, then kiss a white man, who happens to be her husband.

Danièle Watts has starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, and appeared in How I Met Your Mother, Weeds, and Criminal Minds. 

Not that any of that should matter, but when walking in North Hollywood’s Studio City, you’d think the LAPD might be a bit more attuned to who is not a prostitute.

Watts says she was standing, talking to her father on her cell phone, after sharing what we can assume was a simple kiss with her husband.

Watts, who is Black, was doing nothing illegal, or even questionable, by kissing her husband, who is white.

UPDATE: CNN Reporter Really Wants ‘Django Unchained’ Actress To Give Cops Her ID (Video)

“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,” Watts says on her Facebook page. “A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs.”

While Watts’ Facebook post is very humanly spiritual and beautiful, a post written by her husband, Brian Lucas (aka Cheffy BeLive), is a bit more to the point.

He makes clear he believes the police took action because they assumed he was a trick and she was a prostitute, in large part because he is white and she is Black.

Today, Daniele Watts & I were accosted by police officers after showing our affection publicly.

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).

Watts had refused to give police her ID, while her husband did.

Inexplicably, as Variety reports, an “LAPD public information officer said there was no record of the incident as Watts wasn’t arrested or brought into the station for questioning.”

Which is not unusual when the cops know they’ve made a big mistake.

 

Hat tip: Mic.com