In a brand new interview with the Guardian, the Oscar-winning actor — who’s Egyptian — claimed that he was as soon as racially profiled by the Los Angeles Police Division.
“I received thrown on the bonnet of an LAPD cop automobile as a result of somebody had robbed a liquor retailer and stolen a girl’s bag,” he recalled, earlier than claiming that he was advised the suspect was “of Latin descent.”
“You match the outline,” he remembered the cops saying to him.
“I bear in mind how scorching that engine was, they will need to have been racing over there and it was nearly burning my arms,” he mentioned, explaining that he was solely launched as a result of his “Caucasian” good friend “was intelligent sufficient to go, ‘Really, sir, he’s Egyptian. Not Latin.’”
“I bear in mind laughing on the cop automobile, considering, ‘OK, it is a very precarious scenario. I might be going to jail for one thing I’ve not executed.’”
You’ll be able to learn your complete interview right here.