Daniele Watts, who appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film ‘Django Unchained’ was detained by LA police Thursdsy after she was seen kissing a white man in a car, the New York Daily News reports.

“Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place,” Daniel Watts wrote on her Facebook Page. She was kissing her boyfriend Brian Lucas.

According to the Daily News, the LAPD confirmed that the actress was detained at around 3 PM of September 11, but noted that officers were responding to a 911 call complaining of “indecent exposure” by two people in a silver Mercedes.

The motive, however, is questionable by Lucas’s standards.

“From the questions that (the cop) asked, I could tell (he) thought we were a HO (prosititute) and a TRICK (client),’ Lucas posted on his Facebook Page, reports the Daily News.

The actress’s boyfriend showed his ID but Watts refused, which led to her detention and cuffing. The Daily News notes that Lucas posted an image of blood dripping from a puncture made by the restraints.

A picture on Daniele Watts Facebook Page shows her crying, she said that the “cops could not stop me from expressing myself.”

“They could not stop the cathartic tears and rage from flowing out of me. They could not force me to feel bad about myself.”

She noted that what happened last week reminded her of the “countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong.”

In a statement released by the LAPD, it said that, “An internal complaint investigation has been initiated regarding this matter.”

Below is the full Facebook post of Watts about the incident:

“Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.

When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away.

A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs.

As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that “authority figures” could control my BEING… my ability to BE!!!!!!!

I was sitting in that back of this cop car, filled with adrenaline, my wrist bleeding in pain, and it occurred to me, that even there, I STILL HAD POWER OVER MY OWN SPIRIT.

Those cops could not stop me from expressing myself. They could not stop the cathartic tears and rage from flowing out of me. They could not force me to feel bad about myself. Yes, they had control over my physical body, but not my emotions. My feelings. My spirit was, and still is FREE.

I will continue to look any “authority figure” in the eye without fear. NO POLICE OFFICER OR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ME. WE ARE EQUALS. I KNOW THAT I WILL ALWAYS BE FREE BECAUSE THAT IS THE NATURE OF MY SPIRIT.

And moreover, I deeply enjoyed connecting with the cops who detained me. I allowed myself to be honest about my anger, frustration, and rage as tears flowed from my eyes. The tears I cry for a country that calls itself "the land of the free and the home of the brave" and yet detains people for claiming that very right.

Today I exist with courage, knowing that I am blessed to have experienced what I did today. All of those feelings, no matter how uncomfortable. These feelings are what builds my internal strength, my ability to grow through WHATEVER may happen to me.

That internal knowing is what guides me in this world. Not the law, not fear, not mistrust of government or cops or anything else.

In this moment there is a still small voice whispering to me. It says: You are love. You are free. You are pure.”