This is a "Hollywood Star"?
She looks like the lady who cut in front of me at WalMart.
Posted on 09/14/2014 2:51:14 AM PDT by Fenhalls555
A Django Unchained actress is claiming she was 'handcuffed and detained' by police after being mistaken for a prostitute as she kissed her white husband.
Daniele Watts, who played slave CoCo in the award-winning film, posted the news on her Facebook page on 2 September and said her arm was cut when she was handcuffed.
Watts and her husband Brian James Lucas claim that they were kissing on a Hollywood street when police were called and they were asked to show their ID card to which Watts refused.
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It was the result of a complaint of somebody who had assumed an act of prostitution was taking place.
An officer can affect an arrest, if there is cause. He had reason to ask for her identity and she refused, so that is why she was arrested.
It was justifiable.
> Don’t the police need “reasonable cause” before they go interrogating you anyway? Is a white man kissing a black woman reasonable cause to interrogate them?
Assuming this went down as described, I’m going to split from the majority here and say this looks like a legitimate complaint to me.
The term is “probable cause” but it essentially means the same thing. I think Watts has a legitimate complaint if the circumstances are as described however there could be more to this story that we don’t know yet. I will comment from the perspective of being a former LEO though -
No matter now far the culture thinks we’ve come I think most people still don’t like to see open displays of affection by mixed race couples which could very well have been a factor as to why the police questioned them in the first place. It’s not a “pretty” answer but it is what it is.
This is a "Hollywood Star"?
She looks like the lady who cut in front of me at WalMart.
Agreed. Similar to Morton Downey Jr when he said a couple of guys beat him up and drew a Nazi sign on his forehead
Smells like BS to me.
Not true at all. Only if the officer suspects you of a crime. Kissing, to my knowledge, is not a crime.
Silly cops. Since when do hookers kiss a john? On the lips..
Would the complaint based on a man and a woman kissing have been made if they were both white? Would the officer have pursued a complaint based on a man and a woman kissing if they were both white? I doubt it.
No. Absolutely not. We are not required to carry papers. A drivers license is only necessary when driving. You must give your name if asked.
'How is that different from the policies of Nazi Germany?', he mused.
I would thing this would help in her craft. She could draw on this experience to practice her craft!
That cop looks like the infamous White-Hispanic. He’s probably related to Zimmerman...
And there it is.....cops are racist because they stop you to make an inquiry and you're completely justified in just blowing them off. When those actions take their inevitable course, it's time to cry racism.
It is amazing how much better she looks in the maid outfit, ironically enough. Must be the makeup and hair. Looks like a completely different person.
Yes. Jamie Foxx is the jerk who said it.
I’ve seen this highly overrated movie and was bored to death.
We must ban maid outfits. They are symbols of America’s dark past. /s
She ought to have been arrested by the Fashion Police.
LOL!
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