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.

Rami Malek reflected on an alleged incident where he claims to have been racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Department in a new profile for The Guardian.

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.