Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina delivered a personal and revealing speech from the Senate floor Wednesday — saying he has personally faced racial discrimination from police, including being pulled over seven times in one year by cops.

“I want to go to a time in my life when I was an elected official and share just a couple of stories as an elected official. But please remember that in the course of one year, I’ve been stopped seven times by law enforcement officers. Not four, not five, not six, but seven times in one year as an elected official,” said Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate.

“Was I speeding sometimes? Sure. But the vast majority of the time, I was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial.”

Scott explained that he has been pulled over by cops who believe he’s driving a stolen car and by a cop who trailed him for several turns, only to pull him over and claim he failed to use his turn signal on one of the turns.

Even as a member of Congress, he’s been singled out by law enforcement.

“I recall walking into an office building just last year after being here for five years on the Capitol. And the officer looked at me with a little attitude and said, ‘The pin I know, you I don’t, show me your ID,'” Scott said, referring to a pin that members of Congress wear to allow them to skip screening when entering the US Capitol complex.

That night Scott received a call from Capitol Police.

“Mr. President, that is at least the third phone call that I’ve received from a supervisor or the chief of police since I’ve been in the Senate,” he said.

Scott said his experience is not unique to him — far from it. “I do not know many African-American men who do not have a very similar story to tell — no matter their profession, no matter their income, no matter their disposition in life,” he said.

“Imagine the frustration, the irritation, the sense of a loss of dignity that accompanies each of those stops,” he said.

Scott’s stunning speech comes amid a national outcry over violence directed at police officers — and violence perpetrated by officers.