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   LOS ANGELES - An actress, who accused Los Angeles police of   
   violating her civil rights when they handcuffed her after   
   responding to reports of indecent exposure, has been charged   
   with lewd conduct, along with her boyfriend, prosecutors said on   
   Tuesday.   
      
   Danielle Watts, best known for her role in Quentin Tarantino's   
   2012 slavery western "Django Unchained," made headlines in   
   September when she went public to charge that she had been   
   accosted by police largely because she is black and her   
   boyfriend is white.   
      
   Watts, 28, and her boyfriend Brian James Lucas, 43, were each   
   charged with one misdemeanour count of lewd conduct, according   
   to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on   
   Monday.   
      
   A spokesman for the actress declined to comment on the charges,   
   which carry a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000   
   fine.   
      
   Watts was handcuffed by police on Sept. 11 after they responded   
   to a report from a passerby that she and Lucas, a celebrity chef   
   also known as ChefBe*Live, were indecently exposed inside a   
   silver Mercedes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City.   
      
   The couple later both took to social media to accuse officers of   
   violating her rights. "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 on her Facebook   
   page.   
      
   Lucas wrote on his Facebook page that the couple was"accosted by   
   police after showing our affection publicly." He said police had   
   thought Watts was a prostitute because of the couple's attire   
   and their skin colors.   
      
   Celebrity news outlet TMZ posted an audio clip from the police   
   purportedly from the incident, where Watts is heard refusing to   
   give an officer her identification as they try to question her   
   about the incident.   
      
   One of the officers involved in the incident later told the Los   
   Angeles Times in an interview that Watts was uncooperative and   
   she was detained only until officers could identify her.   
      
   The Los Angeles Police Department opened an internal   
   investigation into the incident following the couple's   
   complaints.   
      
   In the nearly three minute-long audio clip, Watts is heard   
   becoming increasingly upset as the police officer continues   
   asking for her ID, and at one point, she mentions "I have a   
   publicist and I work as an actor at this studio."   
      
   Not for much longer, ape girl.   
      
   http://news.asiaone.com/news/showbiz/django-unchained-actress-   
   charged-lewd-conduct   
      
          
      
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