Cops mistake 'Django' Actress Daniele Watts as a prostitute
Django Unchained’ Star Daniele Watts Wrongfully Detained After Being Mistaken for a Prostitute
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Django Unchained star Daniele Watts was wrongfully detained as a result of more racial profiling.
Studio City police mistook Daniele and her husband for a prostitute and her “trick”.
If you recall, Daniele played “CoCo” in the hit film Django Unchained and has a role as Martin Lawrence’s daughter on the FX show Partners.
Here’s what happened: She was dressed in shorts, a t-shirt, and shoes — you know, a normal outfit…especially considering the fact that Los Angeles is in the middle of a heatwave with temperatures above 98º this week.
Daniele and her HUSBAND had a brief public display of affection and that’s when the police rolled up. She refused to show them her ID (which according to the law, she doesn’t have to do), and she was handcuffed.
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 “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.
Those cops could not stop me from expressing myself. They could not stop the cathartic tears and rage from flowing out of me. They could not force me to feel bad about myself. Yes, they had control over my physical body, but not my emotions. My feelings. My spirit was, and still is FREE.
I still don't get how America hasn't paid the African American community for it's atrocities.
The government literally has done so many terrible things to black people to get them in the state they are today and it is still going on. Why can't they sue? Where's the UN. The US pays Israel for something they didn't do but they have 38.2% of African American children living in dire poverty, with low expectations and no hope in that Stolen Bureaucratic Racist Police State of a country.
