Racism is still afoot in the Los Angeles police force, at least according to actress Danielle Watts.

A Reuters report published on Monday told of an altercation that Watts, an African American actress best known for a minor role in Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti western, Django Unchained, had with officers from L.A. Studio City Police Department. The article comes after a photo of Watts went viral over the weekend, showing the actress crying with her hands cuffed behind her back. Watts posted the photo to her Facebook shortly after the altercation, claiming that she was arrested and briefly detained by police for “showing affection.”

Police approached Watts and her boyfriend, a white male named Brian James Lucas, after getting reports that the couple were doing a bit more than “showing affection” in a silver Mercedes. The complaints received from the scene suggest that the couple were somehow “indecently exposed” inside their vehicle.

The way Watts tells the story is a bit different. On her Facebook, she wrote that she was “showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place,” an act for which police handcuffed her after she refused to acknowledge that she had somehow done something wrong. James Lucas, an L.A. area chef, says that officers assumed Watts was a prostitute because of what she was wearing, the color of her skin, and the fact that she was with a white man.

“I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong,” Watts wrote on Facebook following the incident, calling back to the racism and injustice she and many other African Americans undoubtedly saw for years while growing up. 

The Los Angeles police department is reportedly investigating the incident further to see if either of the arresting officers made a mistake.