The “Django Unchained” actress accused of having public sex with her boyfriend says she refused to give into a police request for identification because she was racially profiled as a teenager.
“Some experiences stay with us. When I was 16, my father was driving me home from a school play when we saw flashing lights. We hadn’t been speeding,” Daniele Watts wrote in an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times published on Saturday. “I remember my father asking the police officer what was wrong. The officer ignored his question and demanded information.”
Watts made headlines in September after her run-in with the police went awry.
In her Los Angeles Times column, Watts says the incident during her teenage years left her father “disturbed.”
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