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[TacticalFox88]

African-American actress Danièle Watts claims she was "handcuffed and detained" by police officers from the Studio City Police Department in Los Angeles on Thursday after allegedly being mistaken for a prostitute.

According to accounts by Watts and her husband Brian James Lucas, two police officers mistook the couple for a prostitute and client when they were seen showing affection in public. When the officers asked Watts to produce a photo ID when questioned, she refused. Watts was subsequently handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser while the officers attempted to figure out who she was. The two officers released Watts shortly afterwards.

An Los Angeles PD public information officer told Variety that "there was no record of the incident as Watts wasn’t arrested or brought into the station for questioning."

Sadly, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. In 2008, a Galveston, Texas couple sued three police officers who arrested and beat their 12-year-old daughter after mistaking her for a prostitute. And at the 2011 Netroots Nation convention in Minneapolis, Minn., Cheryl Contee of Jack and Jill Politics asked a panel of African-American women to raise their hands if they had ever been mistaken for a prostitute. Everyone’s hands went up.

http://mic.com/articles/98826/lapd-confuses-black-actress-kissing-white-husband-for-prostitute


#NotAllCops am I right?

 

[Tugatrix]

Do prostitutes Kiss? Come on officers be smarter

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=894458

 

[Terrell]

No record of the incident... except every newspaper, website and blog that's going to report on it, that is.