Daniele Watts, known for her roles in Django Unchained and the FX show Partners, shared a heartbreaking story on Facebook of her experience with the police that has caught national attention.

Watts, whose boyfriend, chef Brian James Lucas is white, was seen kissing Lucas in Studio City when she was later approached by two police officers. The officers, who assumed she was a prostitute, placed the actress in handcuffs and detained her on the sidewalk without giving her a reason why.

Watts broke down the experience Thursday via Facebook.

"Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 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," she said. "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 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs."

She said she was later put in the back of the police car without any reason behind her detention.

"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 said. "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!!!!!!! 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."

Lucas gave his side of the story to TMZ and accused the police officer who handcuffed Watts of racism. He also added that the police officer believed that they were "a tatted rocker white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were HO & a trick."

While both of them were released a short time later, he plans to file a complaint with the LAPD.

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Source: Madame Noire, TMZ