“My children are all half black and I don’t have … even me, I take certain things for granted,” the 76-year-old Oscar winner said on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

“When people say that they tell their kids, ‘Keep your hands when you’re stopped by anybody or cops, keep your hands on the steering wheel, don’t make a sudden move, don’t put your hands below, don’t do this,’ you understand that,” said De Niro.

“That’s scary. That has to change … A lot of people have been saying the cops have to help in the community and have a sensitivity, and there are good cops of course who have that already. But there are some who don’t, and they shouldn’t be there.”

The star of “The Irishman” shares daughter Drena, 48, and son Raphael, 44, with ex-wife Diahnne Abbott. He also has sons Julian, 24, and Aaron, 24, with his ex Toukie Smith, and son Elliot, 22, and daughter Helen, 8, with his ex-wife Grace Hightower.

De Niro and Hightower reached a custody agreement regarding Helen on Valentine’s Day amid their bitter divorce battle.

Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of white Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, protests have called for the end of police brutality and the defunding of police.