Update to the story is that the cops are saying that witnesses say she had just had sex in a car with her husband, so that certainly, if true, could have contributed to the idea she was a prostitute.

As loathe as I am to link to TMZ, they've got the audio recording of the arrest. Witnesses say she and the husband were having sex in the car with the door open, and she kinda let the fame thing go to her head. Here's the link.

Totally been there though. Had the cops called on me and my date while sitting on the patio of a winghouse because people inside claimed we were having sex. No PDA allowed!

Ugh, that sucks.

I mean, you weren't having sex, were you?

Well... No :P We thought were just being all kissy face but, admittedly, we were pretty drunk. So, who knows. The manager defended us and the cops never even came over to us, so I don't think we were that bad. My reputation did go through the roof after that though, so it wasn't the end of the world :)

Congratulations steele on joining these noble ranks. Please note you are the first awarded on this, your site, for which we all thank you for keeping the gang together.

Congratulations Steele. This is a really special moment and I'm so proud of you. I always thought you'd make the wall one day.

I can't wait to tell my journal! :)

You're in good company, right up there with valen85.

It's everything I've dreamed it would be!

Yay! You're welcome and thank you. It's an honor :)

"That's Steele! He's the makeout king! Legend says he had sex just by kissing a girl!"
"Whoa, man, that's AWESOME! I want to have sex by kissing!"
"Calm down there, Phil, you'll get your chance."

Wow, how utterly embarrassing. Everyone knows it's "Daylight SavinG", not "Daylight SavingS".

Daylight savings is appropriate since they are two a year with the same name

Incorrect. Daylight Saving Time is only once a year, typically between Spring and Fall. Standard time is the period between Fall and Spring. You'll see during December that Eastern time is abbreviated EST (Eastern Standard Time) and in the summer, EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).

Many print, online, and broadcast media sources that cover news articles, announcements or features about daylight saving time (DST) often use the phrase “daylight savings” or “daylight savings time”. These phrases are used to describe the possible energy or electricity savings that are made (or not made) as a result of such a schedule...

Nonetheless, “daylight savings time” is still commonly used, especially in countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States. It is likely that the incorrect term “savings” entered the popular vocabulary because it is so often used in everyday contexts, such as “savings account”.

Steele. Where you drunk to the point that you did not know if you were having sex? Is that what you mean?

No, but I don't know how it may have looked. I mean, Alcohol + Heat of Moment might not necessarily equal kissy face that was going on in my head and instead may have actually been dry humping. These things happen.

Oh. That makes sense. Thank you.

I'm not sure they could be any more racist if they'd tried.

It's the LAPD. Of course they could.

True professionals!

Where's the video of her having sex in the car? If there were witnesses to that act you can bet there is video.

Here's the thing though- if we're going to make prostitution illegal (and I know this is a questionable, complex moral call) then they should arrest the johns too. If she and her husband were indeed fucking etc out there in their car then why wasn't he also arrested?

Isn't one of our taglines here "Prostitution is a combination of sex and free enterprise, which one of those do you have a problem with?"

I'm sorry, but I'm a socialist.

Never apologize for being a socialist.

Because he showed them his ID which clearly showed that his name wasn't "John".

I don't think it was an arrest for prostitution. They couldn't figure out who she was. She refused to produce an ID or a DL.

Not only do cops arrest johns, they even set them up with decoys to arrest them.

I think laws against prostitution should be illegal, it should be regulated, health requirements imposed, and it should be taxed.

But this was about having sex in the open and in public. That's probably not a good idea in any society.

Was it? Cops always seem to come up with an excuse when they charge someone with Walking While Black, or resisting arrest. You should presume they're full of shit.

No question that there's a lot of endemic racism on the part of law enforcement, but I'd argue that automatically presuming all cops are racist isn't much different than cops who presume all black people are guilty.

I don't think that presuming that there is endemic racism within the LAPD is really that unreasonable. More importantly, when caught misbehaving, cops always drum out a trumped up charge against their accuser; they should be granted the presumption of innocence until those charges are proven in court.

Sure, what I'm saying is that you shouldn't necessarily presume that every arrest of a person of color is due to racism.

You should probably consider the possibility, but you should consider all cases of racial profiling to be racism because those are synonyms.

Sure, all actual cases of racial profiling would qualify as racism. I'm with you there.
But once again, sometimes a black person may be stopped and arrested for a legitimate reason that has nothing to do with racial profiling. To assume that every such case is racial profiling is a type of profiling in itself.

Sure, but when a black woman with a white partner gets accused of being a prostitute, it's pretty much racism unless she is (and then it only probably is).

HANDS UP! NOT A 'TUTE!

I kind of get the feeling that if she as having sex in the car "WITH THE DOOR WIDE OPEN for everyone to see"- tmz, then at least one person would have taken a picture. Ya she is way overly dramatic but I would be too if I thought I was getting arrested/being given a hard time by the police etc.

Given her position, she might have felt obligated to stand up to them. Sure, she could have walked away from it after a few minutes if she'd shown her ID, but people shouldn't have to put up with that and she's got the money and power to get herself out of any trouble they might throw her way for not acting subservient.

Self explanatory:
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"TMZ obtained police audio of the incident. Watts instantly plays the race card when Sgt. Jim Parker asked for her ID. She quickly moves from the race card to the fame card -- then storms off, refusing to show her ID."
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What's the cop supposed to do? Kiss her ass?

Let her go unless their was evidence of wrong doing?

I thought the LAPD could legal arrest anyone for being Black, under Jim Crow laws.

It does sound like she never got the talk.

This is worth a read in regards to what happened there
https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/your-rights-and-police
Although she is not required to show ID the police CAN ask her to identify herself if they SUSPECT

It's pretty easy for cops to come up with some bullshit reason - they can claim you fit the description of someone they had a warrant for, or they had heard was a suspect in some recent crime. They can fuck with you long enough to ruin your day, then tell you to move along, and it's pretty hard to show them as just being assholes.