Daniele Watts says she was "accosted and forced into handcuffs" by police officers in Los Angeles last week.
The African American actress, who played a slave in Quentin Tarantino's acclaimed film Django Unchained, said it was because she had been "showing affection" to her white boyfriend, "while fully clothed, in a public place."
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Lukas accused the police of displaying racial bias and says that officers mistook Watts for a prostitute. He also revealed that the police threatened to call an ambulance and have Watts drugged because she was acting "psychologically unstable".
"The tears I cry [are] for a country that calls itself ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’ and yet detains people for claiming that very right," she wrote in an emotional Facebook post following the incident.
Los Angeles police said they were responding to a 911 call about "indecent exposure" in a car, the Washington Post reports.
"Upon further investigation it was determined that no crime had been committed. Ms. Watts and her companion were subsequently released." The department has said it has launched an independent investigation into the incident.