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An incident on September 11th involving actress Daniele Watts in Los Angeles has thrust her into the media glare. Watts is the star best known for her role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Apparently responding to a call over so-called “lewd acts” in public, a Los Angeles Police Department officer demanded to see Watts’ ID while she was with her boyfriend. Watts, who is African American, felt that the police was unfairly singling her out because of her race and because she was showing affection publicly to her boyfriend who is white. Refusing to turn over her ID, she was handcuffed. Photos of her weeping while handcuffed went viral. <\/p>\n
Eventually, after being let go, she posted her immediate reaction to her Facebook page, saying, “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. 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 \u201cauthority figures\u201d could control my BEING.”<\/p>\n
Watts was initially supported by local civil rights activists Earl Ofari Hutchinson, and Najee Ali. But after photos of the actress and her boyfriend in their car surfaced on TMZ, they retracted their support and demanded she apologize to the LAPD. Meanwhile, the LAPD has launched its own investigation of the incident although Watts herself has not yet filed any charges. <\/p>\n
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