Prosecutors charge actress Daniele Watts for 'lewd conduct'

'Django Unchained' actress Daniele Watts and her chef boyfriend Brian Lucas have been charged with lewd conduct by LA police.

The couple was accused of having sex in a car outside CBS studios on 11 September, where Watts had blamed an officer for racial bias saying that the police had mistaken them for a sex worker and client, TMZ.com reported.

Watts, who played the slave Coco in Quentin Tarantino's film, claimed that she was only kissing, but the police had handcuffed, put her in the back of a police car as they asked confirm her identity.

She had also shared pictures on social media of an injury to her wrist due to being handcuffed, as well as a picture of her where she's crying while her hands are restrained behind her back as an officer questions her.

However, after analyzing the evidence, state prosecutors have decided to prosecute the pair for lewd conduct, the punishment for which could last up to six months in jail.