<p>'Django Unchained' actress Daniel Watts is livid after she was handcuffed and detained briefly by the LA police who mistook her for a prostitute for being affectionate with her husband in public.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The African-American actress said in a Facebook post that she was handcuffed and detained on Thursday, when she and husband Brian James Lucas, who is white, were being affectionate in public, said The Hollywood Reporter.<br /><br />"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," she wrote.<br /><br />"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," she added.<br /><br />The 'Partners' actress also posted a photo of herself crying standing beside the officer and wrote that her wrist was bleeding in pain.<br /><br />"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," she continued.<br /><br />"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!!" she said, while accusing the police for indulging in racism.<br /><br />Lucas supported his wife and slammed the police, while saying, "Today, Daniele Watts & I were accosted by police officers after showing our affection publicly.<br /><br />"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 white boy and a black girl and thought we were a prostitute and a client. This is something that happened to her and her father when she was 16. What an assumption to make!!!" he posted on his Facebook page.<br /><br />Meanwhile, The LA Police Department (LAPD) said in a statement that the officers were responding to a radio call of indecent exposure.<br /><br />"The citizen who called the police to complain told the 911 operator that a male and a female were involved in indecent exposure inside a Silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open," reads the statement.<br /><br />The police added that Watts and Lucas were briefly detained until it was determined that they had not committed a crime, at which point they were released. "An internal complaint investigation has been initiated regarding this matter," the LAPD said.</p>
<p>'Django Unchained' actress Daniel Watts is livid after she was handcuffed and detained briefly by the LA police who mistook her for a prostitute for being affectionate with her husband in public.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The African-American actress said in a Facebook post that she was handcuffed and detained on Thursday, when she and husband Brian James Lucas, who is white, were being affectionate in public, said The Hollywood Reporter.<br /><br />"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," she wrote.<br /><br />"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," she added.<br /><br />The 'Partners' actress also posted a photo of herself crying standing beside the officer and wrote that her wrist was bleeding in pain.<br /><br />"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," she continued.<br /><br />"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!!" she said, while accusing the police for indulging in racism.<br /><br />Lucas supported his wife and slammed the police, while saying, "Today, Daniele Watts & I were accosted by police officers after showing our affection publicly.<br /><br />"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 white boy and a black girl and thought we were a prostitute and a client. This is something that happened to her and her father when she was 16. What an assumption to make!!!" he posted on his Facebook page.<br /><br />Meanwhile, The LA Police Department (LAPD) said in a statement that the officers were responding to a radio call of indecent exposure.<br /><br />"The citizen who called the police to complain told the 911 operator that a male and a female were involved in indecent exposure inside a Silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open," reads the statement.<br /><br />The police added that Watts and Lucas were briefly detained until it was determined that they had not committed a crime, at which point they were released. "An internal complaint investigation has been initiated regarding this matter," the LAPD said.</p>