‘Django’ actress in ‘racist’ stop was having sex in car - Cops

“Django Unchained” actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend were allegedly having sex in their car before she was questioned and then accused cops of racism, police said.

Watts and Brian James Lucas had previously said they were only kissing when police allegedly overreacted to their public display of affection. She was briefly detained and handcuffed before cops realized there was no crime.

Cops got a call at 3:01 p.m. Thursday from the 11900 block of Ventura Boulevard complaining that “a male and female were involved in indecent exposure inside a silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open,” according to the LAPD.

“Somebody called police saying there were lewd acts in the car,” a calm LAPD cop could be heard telling the couple in a police recording posted by TMZ.

Watts, who is black and whose boyfriend is white, accused the officer of racism.

“Do you know how many times I’ve been called, the cops have been called … just because we’re black and he’s white,” Watts said.

The officer responded: “Who brought up the race card?”

Watts, who played the slave Coco in “Django,” then threatened to call her Hollywood publicist.

“You can take me down to the court office and I can make a scene about it,” Watts shot back. “You know that I have a publicist and I work as an actress.”

The officer kept his cool, but couldn’t resist responding with sarcasm.

“I’m mildly interested, I’m mildly interested that you have a publicist,” he said. “Thank you for bringing up the race card. I never hear that.”

Watts, who had just been at CBS studios in the Studio City neighborhood of LA, was speaking with her dad by cellphone while dealing with the officer.

“Daddy, Daddy, I can’t believe it — all the things that are happening with the cops right now. I can’t even make out with my boyfriend in front of my f–king studio without getting the cops called on me,” the agitated actress said.

“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!”

Again, the officer remained calm but resorted to mockery.

“Keep yelling, it really helps, it really helps,” the wisecracking cop said.

The officer told Lucas the matter could be resolved quickly if Watts would just show her ID.

“I’d already be gone [if Watts had shown ID], just so you know, I’d be gone,” the cop said.

In the audio tape, cops told Watts they put her in handcuffs because she was being uncooperative and tried to walk away without answering their questions.

“I’m sorry, do you see the gentleman here in handcuffs?” said a supervisor identified as Sgt. Jim Parker, apparently referring to Watts’ un-handcuffed boyfriend. “No, he’s not.”

Parker also resorted to sarcasm, telling colleagues that neither Watts, 28, nor Lucas, 43, had any outstanding warrants — and thus were free to leave.

“Not wanted for murder, nothing?” Parker deadpanned. “Do you see what time it is? Fifteen minutes ago I would have been gone.”

Before the cuffs were removed, Watts went off on one more flag-draped, obscenity-laced rant at the officers.

“I bet you, you’re a little bit racist,” she said.

“Hey, this is your job, (dealing with) crazy bat-sh-t fu–kers like me every day of the week, right? That’s what you signed up for, I signed up for freedom. I thought America was land of the free and home of the brave, you know. I’m pretty f–king brave, but I don’t go around putting people in handcuffs.”

She added: “I serve freedom and love. You guys serve detainment. That’s cool, that’s cool, that’s fine.”

Speaking to CNN on Monday, Watts agreed that she could have produced ID sooner and ended the confrontation before it even began.

“I certainly understand that,” said Watts.

Still, Watts believes police shouldn’t have been questioning her in the first place.

“But I do feel that part of my role as a public figure is to raise awareness and be strong enough to say and do the things that maybe people who don’t have the advantages that I have or aren’t strong enough … to do,” she said.

LAPD brass said they’d take a closer look at how their officers handled the incident. “An internal complaint investigation has been initiated regarding this matter,” according to the department.

David K. Li