When POC are collateral damage in the war on sex workers

According to accounts by Watts and her husband Brian James Lucas, two police officers mistook the couple for a prostitute and client when they were seen showing affection in public. When the officers asked Watts to produce a photo ID when questioned, she refused. Watts was subsequently handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser while the officers attempted to figure out who she was.

I've been involved in similar circumstances, although fortunately none involving any detentions or arrests (yet). On a number of occasions a friend and I have been followed at walking speed by police vehicles for several blocks, simply because she's a woman of colour and we were walking in a low-income neighbourhood which was known to have street-level sex work.