Update to this story.

Via LA Times:

Django Unchained” actress Daniele Watts tearfully explained Monday  how racially charged events nationally and her own history with alleged racial profiling caused her to “explode” at a police officer in September.

At a panel discussion at USC’s School of Law, Watts recounted her side of a Sept. 11 incident that drew national attention and charges of lewd acts against the actress and her boyfriend.

“At a certain point, enough is enough and somebody has to say something,” Watts said. She referred to this year’s police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, in Ferguson, Mo., and to witnessing her father being profiled when she was 16. […]

The couple have said they are “appalled and disturbed” by the charges [they were having sex inside his car in the middle of the day on a busy street].

Watts said she hoped the panel discussion at USC would drive the broader societal conversation about race forward.

“If we’re going to condemn me, then we also have to look at the entire society that I am a product of,” she said.