Django Unchained Actress Says Racial Profiling Made Her ‘Explode’
Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts elaborated Monday on her September confrontation with Los Angeles police, saying her history of experiencing racial profiling made her “explode.”
Watts created a stir after posting a Facebook status in September accusing the LAPD of profiling her as a prostitute for “showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place” with her white boyfriend. She was later accused of “crying wolf,” after photos emerged allegedly showing her straddling her boyfriend in a car.
“If we’re going to condemn me, then we also have to look at the entire society that I am a product of,” Watts said at USC, the LATimesreports.
Watts and her boyfriend will appear in court Nov. 13 on charges of lewd acts.
