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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Actor Rami Malek recalled a harrowing incident in which he said he was “thrown” on the hood of a cop car after being mistaken for a robbery suspect in California. In a new interview with The Guardian,