Sgt. Jim Parker refutes the account of the actress, contending that he recorded the incident from the moment he got out of his car 
 
 The Los Angeles police officer involved in a confrontation with Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts is emphatically defending himself against any charges of wrongdoing. 
 
 "She is lying," LAPD Sgt. Jim Parker tells The Hollywood Reporter, contending the actress is making "malicious and false statements." 
 
 Watts, who is African-American, says the police accused her of prostitution because she was being publicly affectionate with her white boyfriend, Brian James Lucas. 
 
 “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,” Watts wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday. "When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cellphone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away. A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs," adding that her wrists were "bleeding in pain." 
 
 But Parker refutes Watts' account, saying he was already near the location to meet up with two other LAPD officers at Starbucks when he got a call about public nudity at the corner of Radford Avenue and Ventura Boulevard, near CBS Studios. Parker tells THR that he recorded the incident from the moment he got out of his car to when it ended. 
 
 "They were f—ing. He was in the passenger seat with his legs outside," Parker says, paraphrasing a call from someone at the Art Directors Guild office, complaining about employees watching a couple having sex in a car in broad daylight with the door open, complete with a description of the make and license plate of the car and description of the couple and what they were wearing. He says at least one witness took a photo. "People don't make this shit up." 
 
 Parker says he didn't plan on arresting the couple, who he says were no longer engaged in intercourse, and standing outside the car; she was on the phone. "People having sex in the car, no biggie. No one wants to arrest anybody," Parker says. "And he [Lucas] said, 'Oh, I have her passport.' He was wearing two tourist bags around his neck and I assumed he had hers. She was feigning disinterest, but I could tell she was listening in. Then as you hear on the recording, she starts making a fuss, and quite frankly I don't need to see her ID but she does have to ID herself." 
 
 The recording, which was made public by TMZ on Monday, features a woman's voice saying, "Do you know how many times the cops have been called because I'm black? Just because I'm black and he's white?" Later, she says, "You can say I'm resisting arrest," and put her father, who she was speaking with on her cellphone, on speaker to talk to the police, saying, "It's my right to stand on the street corner and make out with my boyfriend." 
 
 But cops say they were doing more than making out. 
 
 "There's no resisting; you're just interfering," a policeman is heard saying. LAPD sources tell THR that TMZ's recording is authentic. 
 
 Parker says he knew the other officers were nearby when Watts walked away from him as the situation escalated, but he didn't want to chase after her or physically confront her. "I've been here before, I'm not touching her. I don't want to be accused of anything. So I requested a female officer and said, 'Hey guys, grab that female on the phone and bring her back to me.'" 
 
 "I'm thinking, 'God, it's taking a long time to bring her back to me,' Parker continues. "They [two other officers] said, 'She's being difficult.' They have her handcuffed, because that's what they do. It's too far to walk, so they drove her back. And I said, 'You have to give me your ID or tell me your name.' She's crying." 
 
 Watts, who is also on the FX show Partners, told CNN on Monday that the LAPD "accosted me and forced me into handcuffs," and repeated what she had said on the recording, that the cops alleged "I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place." She also told CNN she felt disrespected when police asked Lucas for her ID instead of asking her directly. 
 
 "She had no idea I was recording. So I asked her, 'Why are you in handcuffs? He's [Lucas] been here this whole time not in handcuffs. Tell me if someone has been disrespectful,'" Parker says he asked the actress when she returned, handcuffed and distressed, adding that the recording exonerates the LAPD in this situation. "Police officers can record surreptitiously without consent. The other officers also had their recording on. It helps the police department." 
 
 The LAPD confirmed it is conducting an internal investigation because of the widespread publicity surrounding the incident. If he hadn't made the recording, Parker says, "The three of us would be relieved of duty right now." 
 
 Watts' agent did not immediately return an email for comment. 
 
 Email: Soo.Youn@THR.com 
 
 Twitter: @lalasoo ||||| The “Django Unchained�? actress handcuffed in Los Angeles last week told police she didn't have to follow their script because she had her own, new audio obtained by the Daily News reveals. 
 
 “I know my rights … I played a cop on TV, and I know when somebody asks for your ID, you’re not required to give it,�? actress Daniele Watts tells two officers in new audio that captured the emotional moments after she was cuffed. 
 
 “Actually that’s wrong, that’s not right,�? one cop replies. 
 
 Earlier in the recording, Watts is heard crying as a male officer asks her to let him explain the reason for her detainment. 
 
 Daniele Watts claimed she was wrongfully detained when cops mistook her for a prostitute after she showed some PDA with her boyfriend. (Brian Lucas via Facebook) 
 
 “I’m being very calm. I’m not being an a— to you,�? the male Latino officer says. 
 
 “You’re not the one who’s in handcuffs,�? Watts responds. “You’re not the one who’s spent your life being called a N----- and growing up in the south, and now I get the cops called on me.�? 
 
 Watts, 28, and her boyfriend Brian James Lucas, a celebrity chef, were stopped by Los Angeles Police officers last Thursday after an unidentified witness called and said the couple was having sex in a car. The couple has denied they engaged in anything more than kissing and said they were singled out and treated unfairly because Lucas is white and Watts is black. 
 
 Alexander Gould as Shane Botwin and Daniele Watts as Angela Mullen on ‘Weeds.’ (Michael Desmond) 
 
 “I’m an actress at this studio, do you understand that?�? Watts says in the new audio that captures interactions not covered in a different recording leaked earlier this week. 
 
 “I don’t know that. I’ll find that out, but let me…�? the male officer responds. 
 
 “I’m on a major sitcom right now, and I’m still getting put in handcuffs because I’m making out with my boyfriend in a public space,�? Watts says through tears. 
 
 Daniele Watts playing a cop on ‘Weeds.’ (MICHAEL DESMOND PHOTOGRAPHY) 
 
 “The cop pulled us over because he thought I was a prostitute,�? she continues. “So just because somebody calls and says I was having sex, I’m in handcuffs?�? 
 
 The officers in the new recording encountered Watts after she allegedly walked away from Sgt. Jim Parker, the senior officer who first made contact with Lucas. 
 
 Previously released audio revealed Parker’s handling of the police stop and came after Lucas trashed him online. 
 
 A witness snapped a photo allegedly of actress Daniele Watts, straddling her boyfriend inside a car. (TMZ) 
 
 In a Facebook post after the incident, Lucas said police acted as though he and Watts were engaged in prostitution because they are an interracial couple. 
 
 Parker told The News he never suspected Watts was a prostitute and claimed he would have ended the stop in less than five minutes – without calling the other two officers for help – had Watts cooperated and shown her ID. 
 
 He said he found it “funny�? that Watts has accused police of discrimination because he is gay while the two other officers involved are a woman and a Latino male. 
 
 Daniele Watts and Brian Lucas speak during an interview with KABC-TV on Sunday after their police encounter. (AP) 
 
 “The gay thing never really comes up unless I’m dealing with people who are gay, and I let them know so they know where I’m coming from,�? he said. “But if (Watts) had taken the time to act like an adult with us and converse with us, she would have seen none of it was race based.�? 
 
 He said he could have been even harder on Watts if his intentions were what she claims. 
 
 “Quite frankly, I could have held her longer and gone inside the building and asked the witnesses if they wanted to make a citizen’s arrest. I could have done that,�? Parker, who has 25 years on the force, told The News. 
 
 Daniele Watts appeared in ‘Django Unchained.’ (ANDREW COOPER) 
 
 “I didn’t do that,�? he said. “And I’m not going to escalate to an arrest just because someone is hyper and playing the race card, because that would be spiteful. I didn’t want anyone arrested.�? 
 
 ndillon@nydailynews.com 
 
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– Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts says she was handcuffed by police for kissing her white boyfriend in a car, but the responding officer says that's simply not true. "She is lying," LAPD Sgt. Jim Parker tells the Hollywood Reporter, adding that he recorded the entire incident. He says police received a public-nudity complaint; the caller said Watts and Brian James Lucas were having sex in a car near CBS Studios. "[Lucas] was in the passenger seat with his legs outside," according to the caller, an Art Directors Guild office employee, Parker says. He claims that at least one person took a picture, and TMZ apparently got its hands on that picture—and the gossip site notes that it certainly does look "like sex." Parker says Watts and Lucas were no longer doing whatever it was they had been doing by the time he arrived—Watts was on the phone, standing outside the car. "People having sex in the car, no biggie. No one wants to arrest anybody," Parker says, but he did ask Lucas for Watts' ID. "And he [Lucas] said, 'Oh, I have her passport,'" which is when Watts started getting upset, Parker says, adding, "Quite frankly, I don't need to see her ID, but she does have to ID herself." He says Watts walked away, and he didn't want to engage in a physical confrontation, so he requested a female officer to come and bring Watts back. That's when the two officers he sent after her brought her back in cuffs, saying, "She's being difficult." As for Lucas, he was never cuffed, Parker points out. "I asked her, 'Why are you in handcuffs? He's [Lucas] been here this whole time not in handcuffs.'"