Rami Malek recently shared an incident in which he was racially profiled and thrown against a police car in Los Angeles for a robbery he didn't commit. This was just one of many times in which he had to reconcile his Egyptian-American identity.

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,

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.'