Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts has been ordered to perform community service after a judge refused to buy her apologies to the Los Angeles police, whom she’d accused of racial profiling.
Watts and her boyfriend, Brian Lucas, were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 hours of community labour.
Last September, police questioned the couple while investigating reports of people having sex in a car. Watts, who’s black, and Lucas, who’s white, claimed they were racially profiled.
The couple later pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace and was told to write apology letters.
The Los Angeles Times says in her initial letter, Watts called a police sergeant sarcastic and dismissive. The judge said: try again. This week, Watts apologised for what she called lack of emotional control.
But the judge called the apologies insincere.
