Daniele Watts releases statement, fights back at 'racial profiling' following LAPD detainment

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Earlier this week, 'Django: Unchained' actress, Daniele Watts, was detained by Los Angeles police officers after a concerned citizen called in to report an "indecent exposure."

The arrest happened after some citizens witnessed Watts and celebrity chef white boyfriend, Brian James Lucas showing each other affection.

According to a post by Lucas, the arresting officers kept asking questions filled with innuendo that Watts was a prostitute serving her boyfriend as the client.

The actress, who also appeared in the hit show 'How I Met Your Mother,' released a statement via her Facebook account recalling the incident:

"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," Watts wrote in a Facebook post.

"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," the actress added.

"A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs," continued Watts in her statement.

Watts' boyfriend also released a statement via his Facebook account:

"From the questions that he asked me as D was already on her phone with her dad, I could tell that whoever called on us (including the officers), saw a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client)," wrote Lucas on September 11.

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