During a recent interview, Rami Malek recalled an alleged encounter with LA police, in which the actor said he was racially profiled after a robbery.

Rami Malek revealed that he was once racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department. “I got thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car because someone had robbed a liquor store and stolen a woman’s bag,” the Oscar winner, 43, recalled in a new interview with The Guardian.

Oscar winner Rami Malek revealed a previous encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department during which he was racially profiled and thrown onto a cop car as authorities tried to locate a robber.

Rami Malek got real about what sounds like a pretty scary situation with the police. In a new interview with the Guardian, the Oscar-winning actor — who is Egyptian — claimed that he was once racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department.

In a recent discussion with The Guardian, Rami Malek detailed his experiences with racism as an Egyptian-American, pointing to one racial profiling incident where he found himself on the hood of a cop car.

Rami Malek is recounting his at-times complicated upbringing as an Egyptian-American growing up in Southern California.

Rami Malek said he was once 'thrown' onto a cop car when police suspected him of robbing a liquor store: 'I remember how hot that engine was... it was almost burning my hands.'

Rami Malek was once "thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop car" after he mistaken for a criminal. The 43-year-old actor still has vivid memories of being stopped by police officers on the streets of Los Angeles during his younger years.

In an interview with The Guardian, actor Rami Malek revealed that he was arrested in Los Angeles after being a victim of racial discrimination during a police stop.

"I remember laughing on the cop car, thinking, 'Okay, this is a very precarious situation. I may well be going to jail for something I've not done,'" he recalls