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US actress Daniele Watts has said she was "handcuffed and detained" by two Los Angeles police officers who apparently mistook her for a prostitute.
The Django Unchained star said she was approached by the officers after kissing her white partner, Brian James Lucas, in public.
The LAPD said that officers detained the pair after a complaint that two people were "involved in indecent exposure" in a silver Mercedes.
According to accounts on the couple's Facebook pages, Watts was talking on her mobile phone to her father when an officer approached.
Believing she had done nothing wrong, she said she walked away. Two other officers from the Studio City Police Department then arrived and asked for ID.
When she refused they handcuffed her and put her in the back of their car while they checked who she was.
She was released shortly afterwards.
Actress Daniele Watts is questioned by two Los Angeles police officers
Watts accused the police officers of 'accosting' her
Watts wrote: "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 two different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs."
Pictures of the incident taken by Watts' partner show the actress looking visibly upset as one of the police officers addresses her.
"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 added in her Facebook post.
"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 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."
She added: "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."
Honestly, she tells a totally different story in the vid I can't work out how to post, it is much more dramatic in that version but in my opinion she is being dramatic as it is.
It also sounds like someone complained about there "public" display of affection, I don't know why people can't keep themselves to themselves in public, not everyone likes to see people slobbering all over each other, just hold hands and hug why do you have to make out in fall view of everyone.
Also, the police put her in handcuffs because they got a complaint and she refused to give them ID, that is standard procedure not racism. I'm sorry but I find this story irritating, I feel like she acted with arrogance and I don't see anything racist in her story, maybe I'm missing something. What I see is
Guy makes a complaint about people making out in a way he felt was inappropriate.
Police arrive to standard complaint.
She refuses to stop, answer there questions or give her ID
They handcuff her and put her in the back of the car while they check to see if she is a wanted crook
I see nothing out of the ordinary. I feel in this case that she created the racism or as I said maybe I am missing something.
There is so much real racism in the world that so desperately needs fighting, when people cloud the issue like she did in my opinion it takes away from the real issues that people are trying so hard to fight.
