Los Angeles: A black actress who appeared in "Django Unchained" and her white companion suspect police assumed she was a prostitute when the two were only showing affection.
The Los Angeles police said Sunday that officers detained Daniele Watts and her companion after a complaint that two people were "involved in indecent exposure" in a silver Mercedes. Watts was detained until police determined no crime was committed.
Watts told KCBS-TV that she and Brian Lucas were embracing in the car Thursday.
Lucas says that he felt the officer mistook Watts as a prostitute "because he was asking me questions like, `Who is she? How do you know here? Are you together?"
Watts says she walked away and another officer put her in handcuffs and into the back of a patrol car. She was let go after police identified her.
Police say an internal investigation has been launched.
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