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 an encounter with the Los Angeles Police Department, in which he was racially profiled and thrown on a cop car.

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.