Django Unchained Actress Arrested After Kissing White Husband

Guess you can add kissing your husband to the list of things one
has to be careful doing "while Black." Actress Danièle Watts , who
notably played the slave Coco in Quentin Tarantino's Django
Unchained , learned that lesson the hard way on Thursday after
she was detained by the Los Angeles Police Department for
kissing her white husband. New reports from TMZ claims she was
stopped and question for having sex in public.
According to accounts by Watts and her husband Brian James
Lucas, two police officers grew suspicious when they saw the
couple engaged in PDA outside of CBS's Studio City production
facility. When the officers asked Watts to produce a photo id when
questioned, she refused. Watts was subsequently handcuffed
while the officers attempted to figure out who she was. The cops
claimed she was handcuffed after she walked away.
"I sat on his lap in the front seat of the car and we start making
out," she tells BuzzFeed . A man from a nearby office came out and
asked the couple to “stop putting on a show.” The police arrived
shortly thereafter.
Watts posted her feelings about the humiliation to her Facebook
page. "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 wrote. "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!!!!!!!"
TMZ is reporting according to witnesses the police were called
because Watts and Lucas were not "making out," but having sex in
the car. In the police audio, there is no reference to sex in public.
While handcuffed, Watts said, "I don't understand how we live in a
free country where cops put you in handcuffs for nothing." She
also adds, "You get to go around making people feel like they are
powerless. You get to walk around with this false sense of power
that's not real." Watts and Lucas were not charged with a crime
and released.
The actress currently stars alongside Martin Lawrence and Kelsey
Grammer in the network sitcom Partners.