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 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.