Hollywood actress Daniele Watts, who played the slave CoCo in Django Unchained has been formally charged for lewd conduct by Los Angeles police for having allegedly having s ex with her boyfriend in the their car by the side of the road. This charge comes one month after the incident went viral.
In September,
Watts who is being charged with her chef boyfriend, Brian James Lucas alleged
that they were being racially profiled by the police who met them at the scene
of the incident and that officers had thought she was a prostitute and her
boyfriend was her customer. The car was parked outside the CBS Studio Centre.
Watts had
earlier gone to her Facebook page to protest her treatment by the police and
made some media rounds explaining her side of the story. She maintained that
she and Lucas were just kissing when they were accosted by police officers who
asked her for her identification on September 4, 2014.
Boyfriend
have formally been charged with lewd conduct, one month after claiming Los
Angeles Police racially profiled her and cuffed her because she is black.
Watts
maintains that she and boyfriend Brian James Lucas were only kissing in her
car, parked outside the CBS Studio Center, when police approached the pair on
September 4.
Police say
they responded to 911 calls from witnesses who complained that there was a
couple having s ex in a car. Witnesses snapped the photo of the couple in the
car below.
A witness’ photo of the couple in the car
allegedly having s ex (Photo Credit: Splash News/TMZ)
Lucas had
taken a picture of Watts crying after her arrest and posted it on Facebook at
the time of the incident.
Civil right
activists had rallied around the actress at the time of her arrest. However,
support for the actress simmered as new information began to emerge.
The Los
Angeles Police Department vigorously denied the allegations of racial profiling
in the incident.
Watts and
Lucas are scheduled to be arraigned on November 13, 2014 and if convicted they
face a possible sentence of six months in jail with a $1,000 fine.
Sobbing: Lucas posted a picture of his girlfriend to
Facebook. She claimed the LAPD had racially profiled her but it has since been
revealed that her arresting officers were minorities (Photo Credit: Facebook)
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