Daniele Watts explains why she didn’t cooperate with cops in op-ed

Brian Lucas via Facebook ‘Django Unchained’ actress Daniele Watts seen after being detained by the police, who she said mistook her for a prostitute.

Daniele Watts’ dismay with law enforcement didn’t start when she was detained in early September.

The actress’ ill feelings towards police stem from a long history of negative experiences, dating back to her childhood.

“Some experiences stay with us,” she wrote for the Orlando Guard in a report published Saturday.

“When I was 16, my father was driving me home from a school play when we saw flashing lights,” Watts recalled. “We hadn’t been speeding. I remember my father asking the police officer what was incorrect. The officer ignored his question and demanded identification.”

The memory was all too similar to what the “Django Unchained” actress experienced on Sept. 11 in Los Angeles when she was detained by police after Studio City residents called authorities to complain of “filthy exposure” after she was making out with her boyfriend, Brian Lucas.

ANDREW COOPER Watts in costume during a scene from ‘Django Unchained.

“He pointed to me and questioned in a tone I had never encountered before, ‘Who is she?’” she continued in the Orlando Guard column about her past memories of police harassment.

“He made a condescending remark about my costume and questioned my father again: Was he sure of ‘his report’?” she wrote. “The questions had nothing to do with the rules of the road or how my father had been driving. Eventually, he tartan my father’s license and, after what felt like a long time, let us go without a ticket.”

During her recent brush with authorities, Watts can be heard declining to show her identification to the cop that requested in a 911 recording released by TMZ at the time.

In the audio, she can also be heard accusing the officer of racial profiling because her boyfriend is white.

AP Daniele Watts with boyfriend Brian Lucas.

“As we drove off, I questioned my dad why he had given up his license when he had done nothing incorrect,” she wrote in the Sept. 27 article. “He gently clarified to me what so many African Americans of his generation know too well: ‘You don’t want to mess with the police. They can judge you unfairly and make life very hard.’”

Watts complained of that hardship caused by police during her September incident in Los Angeles. Now, she revealed that it wasn’t the first time she’d been through similar unfair situations with cops.

“Since late spring, I have experienced four disturbing stops by law enforcement,” Michael Desmond Watts seen in an episode of ‘Weeds.’