Reaction Formation is a mental defense sometimes used by white people when they come into contact with non-white people. "Non-whites always will have something highly visible that whites never can have or produce — the genetic factor of color." [MORE] This psychological response "converts something desired and envied but wholly unattainable, into something discredited and despised [imagine midgets and tall persons in a height challenged society]. The whites, desiring to have skin color but unable to attain it, claimed (consciously or unconsciously) that skin color was disgusting to them, and began attributing negative qualities to color - especially to blackness." [MORE] Here, white cops could not understand why an upstanding white man would be intimate with a Black woman in public. 

From [HERE] An Black actress who played the slave CoCo in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Django Unchained has claimed she was handcuffed and detained by white police officers in Los Angeles who assumed she was a prostitute, because she was kissing her white boyfriend in his car.

Daniele Watts, who is black says she was “humiliated” by the incident, which she said occurred in the Studio City neighbourhood on Thursday. She also plays a Black cop on the show Weeds. [She was not humiliated by playing Coco?] 

Watts posted photographs of the encounter on her Facebook page, one highlighting a bloody injury to her wrist she said was caused by handcuffs, another showing the actor in tears, standing next to a low wall with her hands restrained behind her back and a white officer questioning her.

The incident began, Watts said, when a member of the public called the police [probably a white person - white people act as an auxillary police force with regard to non-whites, especially Black & Latino males. They are watching you and if you do anything that makes them uncomfortable they will use their I-Phones to call the cops.] apparently upset at the couple’s public display of affection [and maybe in a state of reaction formation].

An officer demanded to see identification from Watts, 28, and her boyfriend Brian Lucas, a white man who is a celebrity chef.  Lucas complied but Watts refused and walked away, saying she was under no obligation to show it. [that was ignorant. To the extent that you might be dealing with a racist cop - you must comply with their just and unjust commands. Legal truths aside, your reality is white supremacy and you are powerless in this racist environment, esp. in this kind of one on one street encounter. Besides, police do have the discretionary authority to demand identification and can detain to investigate if you refuse. Of course, if there is a legal basis you can take legal action later on - if you're still alive to do so. But as a victim of white supremacy in this situation, your main goals should be to avoid death, injury and greater confinement in the present moment. Maybe that wasn't the case in the fake slave world created by the racist suspect who made Django, but it should have been. Many slaves understood their environment and mastered the skill of communicating with the oppressor.] 

In a Facebook post, Watts wrote: “Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.

“When the officer arrived, I was [confused by reality] standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away.”

Watts wrote that she was still talking to her father a few minutes later when two other officers arrived in a patrol car, “accosted me and forced me into handcuffs”. She said they then placed her in the back of the car and took her back to the scene, where she was questioned and released.

Lucas said the line of questioning taken by police was laden with innuendo. “They kept asking, ‘Do you really know her?’”

In a Facebook post of his own, Lucas, who has appeared on television as a gourmet raw food chef, said the officers “saw a tatted rocker white boy and a hot bootie shorted black girl and thought we were HO [prostitute] and trick [client]”.

Lucas said police also threatened to call an ambulance and have Watts drugged for being “psychologically unstable”, before they established her identity and released her.

“They had nothing to arrest her for. They let her go quite quickly when they realised we were right outside CBS and that she was a celebrity,” he added.

Watts, who also appears in the Showtime series Weeds, said she was upset but not surprised by the incident.

“As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong,” she wrote.

“I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that ‘authority figures’ could control my being.”

Last month the Beverly Hills police department expressed its regret, but stopped short of an apology, after arresting, handcuffing and detaining the Hollywood producer Charles Belk, who it mistook for a robbery suspect.

Belk, who was walking from a restaurant to his car to feed a parking meter before the Emmy awards ceremony, “matched the clothing and physical characteristics” of the robber, was arrested and spent several hours in custody.

“I was misidentified as the wrong ‘tall, bald head, black male’,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “If something like this can happen to me it can certainly happen to anyone.”