True Detective's Kali Reis: 'is a Navarro spin-off possible? Absolutely!'

Despite playing a police officer in HBO’s True Detective, Kali Reis hasn’t always had the best interactions with the force.

“I got assaulted by a police officer in Rhode Island when I didn't do anything,” she says frankly. “So having that flipped on its head [by playing one], it's like alright, if I got to deal with the trauma, I gotta deal with it now.”

Fortunately, Reis got justice for the incident, which took place in 2012 while she was working as door security at a nightclub. A fight broke out inside, and according to the lawsuit she filed three years later, the police officer in question punched, pepper-sprayed, and handcuffed her after she tried to administer first aid to a co-worker, who appeared to be unconscious.

“I actually found out that he was assaulting people since the year I was born – since, like, ‘86.