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   Los Angeles (CNN) -- "Django Unchained" actress Daniele Watts   
   defended her refusal to show her ID to Los Angeles police before   
   they handcuffed her last week.   
      
   The African-American actress and her white boyfriend accused   
   police of racism for questioning them in what they said was only   
   a public display of affection.   
      
   "I believe in America and what it stands for," Watts said Monday   
   in an interview on CNN's "New Day."   
      
   Police responded to a citizen complaint that "a male white and   
   female black were involved in a sexual act inside a Mercedes"   
   outside the gate of CBS Studio Center on Thursday, according to   
   a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.   
      
   Legal experts said the officer had the right to request   
   identification if he suspected illegal behavior, but audio of   
   part of the encounter with police, published by TMZ, revealed   
   that Watts did not believe so.   
      
   "Somebody called, which gives me the right to be here," the   
   unidentified Los Angeles police officer is heard saying to   
   Watts. "So It gives me the right to identify you by law."   
      
   "Do you know how many times the cops have been called just for   
   being black?" she responded.   
      
   "Who brought up the race card?" the officer said.   
      
   "I'm bringing it up because I have every right to be here,"   
   Watts said.   
      
   When the officer again asked for her ID, the actress responded,   
   "You can take me down to the court office, and I can make a   
   scene about it. And you know what? I have a publicist, and I   
   work as an actor in this studio."   
      
   The officer, who patrols a neighborhood home to many A-list   
   celebs, including George Clooney and Miley Cyrus, seemed unmoved   
   by the prospect. "I'm mildly interested you have a publicist,   
   but I'm going to get your ID," he told her.   
      
   "No, I'm going to say no, and if you'd like my ID you can say   
   that I'm resisting arrest," she said.   
      
   "There's no resisting, you're just interfering," he said. "I   
   have probable cause; we received a radio call."   
      
   Watts called her father. "I can't make out with my boyfriend in   
   front of my f--king studio?" she is heard yelling to her father.   
   "I don't have to give him my ID because it's my right to sit on   
   the f--king street corner and make out with my boyfriend. That's   
   my right."   
      
   "Keep yelling, it really helps," the officer then said.   
      
   Watts was eventually handcuffed and placed in a patrol car. She   
   was released a few minutes later when her boyfriend relented and   
   gave the officer her ID.   
      
   A Los Angeles police representative told CNN on Sunday that   
   officers from its North Hollywood precinct were responding to a   
   citizen complaint.   
      
   "There was an indication on the radio call that a male white and   
   female black were involved in a sexual act inside a Mercedes   
   with the vehicle door open," Officer Sally Madera said. "Two   
   people were briefly detained, but it was revealed no crime had   
   been committed."   
      
   Watts' boyfriend -- Brian James Lucas, better known as celebrity   
   chef Cheffy Be*Live -- wrote in a Facebook post that police "saw   
   a tatted RAWKer white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl   
   and thought we were a HO (prostitute) & a TRICK (client)."   
      
   The couple posted a short video clip and several photos showing   
   Watts in handcuffs talking to police. One image shows a cut on   
   her wrist, which she said was caused by the tight handcuffs.   
      
   Watts, who acts in the FX show "Partners," said the officers   
   "accosted me and forced me into handcuffs" after she refused "to   
   agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection,   
   fully clothed, in a public place."   
      
   Lucas said when an officer asked for their identifications, he   
   showed his that but Watts refused "to give it because they had   
   no right to do so."   
      
   "So they handcuffed her and threw her roughly into the back of   
   the cop car until they could figure out who she was," he wrote.   
   "In the process of handcuffing her, they cut her wrist, which   
   was truly NOT COOL!!!"   
      
   She was released "quite quickly when they realized we were right   
   outside CBS and that she was a celebrity and I was a celeb   
   chef," Lucas wrote. "Before they figured out who she was they   
   were threatening calling an ambulance and drugging her for being   
   psychologically unstable, SO NOT COOL WHATSOEVER! "   
      
   Watts and Lucas said they initially decided to forget about the   
   incident, but then they decided they needed to speak up.   
   "We still forgive, love and bless them ... just not putting up   
   with this for our own freedom and heart space," Lucas wrote.   
      
   The couple has contacted lawyers, the American Civil Liberties   
   Union and the NAACP, he said. "Our publicist has us in contact   
   with media about it, too, and we're supposed to hear back."   
      
   The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed it is conducting an   
   internal investigation.   
      
   Watts, a native of Atlanta, made her feature film debut in 2012   
   as Coco in the Oscar-nominated "Django Unchained."   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/15/showbiz/django-unchained-actress-   
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