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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsActress Daniele Watts charged with lewd conduct
Actress Daniele Watts, who suggested she was detained by police because of racial profiling after she was found in a parked car with her boyfriend, was charged Tuesday with lewd conduct.
Watts, 28, and her boyfriend Brian Lucas, 43, were each charged with a single misdemeanor count that carries a potential sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the city attorney's office.
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Police said they followed proper protocol while investigating the 911 call and local civil rights activists demanded that Watts apologize for suggesting race played a role in the confrontation. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who initially rallied behind the actress, said she "cried wolf."
"We take racial profiling very seriously," he told reporters last month. "It's not a play thing. It's not trivial."
Watts, 28, and her boyfriend Brian Lucas, 43, were each charged with a single misdemeanor count that carries a potential sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the city attorney's office.
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Police said they followed proper protocol while investigating the 911 call and local civil rights activists demanded that Watts apologize for suggesting race played a role in the confrontation. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who initially rallied behind the actress, said she "cried wolf."
"We take racial profiling very seriously," he told reporters last month. "It's not a play thing. It's not trivial."
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2014/oct/21/actress-daniele-watts-charged-lewd-conduct/
It appears that Daniele Watt's support is dwindling.
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Actress Daniele Watts charged with lewd conduct (Original Post)
kiva
Oct 2014
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Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)1. Any press is good press
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)2. Everude Motors Should get her celebrity endorsement.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)3. She basically dared them to charge her...
when she went public and claimed she was profiled. Bad move on her part.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)4. I have no sympathy
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)5. Whoa
Didn't see that coming.
Frankly, the city should just walk away. They already won in the court of public opinion.
They are overplaying and risk looking like piling on and for what? A minor misdemeanor and suspended sentence at most and at what cost?
They should take their own advice and just walk away.