A so-called “Karen” in Arizona was slapped across the face for telling a Native American woman to “go back to Mexico.”

The caught-on-camera scuffle happened Saturday inside a Shell convenience store in Phoenix, fellow customer Greg Conn posted to Facebook.

In the moments before Conn started filming, he said “Karen,” a middle-aged white woman in a black-and-white dress, stormed into the store flustered because her gas pump wasn’t working.

Conn said “Karen” got into a back-and-forth with a younger woman who was being helped at the counter. “Karen” told the woman “to go back to her country.”

Then he turned on his camera.

“Native Americans are from this country,” the younger woman can be heard saying. Then she tells a clerk, “Don’t serve her racist ass.”

“Karen” then confronts Conn, telling him he needs to leave because “you’re not a part of this.”

Then she returns to the counter and asks the younger woman, “Where are you from? Where were you born?”

“Where are you from, b—h?” the younger woman shoots back. “I was born in America. Where are your ancestors from? They’re not from this country.”

“You better go back to Mexico,” the older woman says, before the two get in each other’s faces.

”Karen” appears to shove the younger woman, who slaps her across the face — prompting the older woman to storm out in a huff.

“You deserved it, in my opinion,” Conn says while still recording. “Self-defense on her part.”

“Karen,” who initially claimed she was the manager of the convenience store, is not employed there and is no longer welcome at any of its locations nationwide, the owners told TMZ.

The “Karen” moniker is social media shorthand for white women who call the cops on black people over harmless incidents.

The incident comes nearly two weeks after the “Central Park Karen” fiasco — in which Amy Cooper called the police on black birdwatcher Christian Cooper after he asked her to leash her dog.

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The NYPD cop shown in a viral video pushing a woman to the ground during Brooklyn protests over the death of George Floyd is expected to be arrested Tuesday, police sources said.

The officer, who hasn’t been officially identified, was a 73rd Precinct cop. He has already been suspended without pay.

It was unclear what he would be charged with.

The video shows him shove Dounya Zayer at a protest near Barclays Center on May 29.

The officer can be heard calling Zayer a “stupid b—h” before shoving her to the pavement. She suffered a seizure and concussion, she has said.

Zayer tweeted about the incident from her hospital bed, begging protesters to be careful.

“I beg everyone who is going back out tonight to protest to be careful. These police want to make an example out of us. They want to prove that they can hurt us and get away with it. Prove them wrong,” she tweeted.

A second cop was suspended after he was caught on video the next day pulling down a protester’s mask and pepper-spraying him in his face. The outcome of the investigation into that case hasn’t been released.

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch raged against the planned arrest.

“Once again, Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD brass are sacrificing cops to save their own skin,” he said. “They created the failed strategy for managing these demonstrations. They sent police officers out to do the job with no support and no clear plan. They should be the ones facing this mob-rule justice.”

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These Bollywood celebrities are fair-skinned — and two-faced, critics say.

Indian movie stars are catching heat for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement online even while endorsing skin-lightening facial creams in advertisements.

Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, 37 — the wife of singer Nick Jonas, and among India’s highest-paid entertainers — shared a post on Instagram last week urging people to end the “race war” after the death of George Floyd.

“Wherever you live, whatever your circumstances, NO ONE deserves to die, especially at the hands of another because of their skin color,” she wrote under an image that read, “‘Please, I can’t breathe.”

But observers quickly shot down her comments, calling her “hypocritical” for appearing in a Garnier ad for “fairness” cream, which is used by some people of color to lighten their skin tone.

“Pri was the face of skin lightening creams in India. Pri is part of the problem,” one critic posted on Twitter along with the ad.

In the advertisement, the star is shown posing next to the face lotion, which is described as “ultra-light fairness and dark spots reduction cream.”

Indian actress was also criticized for shunning racism while promoting a skin-lightening cream.

“All colors are beautiful,” she wrote on Twitter — only to be called out for appearing in an ad for a similar product, Pond’s “fairness” cream.

“Irony is celebs advertising for fairness creams are being vocal about #BlackLivesMatter! First bring the change within you then only you can change the world,” one critic, Satyam Shivam, slammed on Twitter.

Indian actor Abhay Deol criticized fellow celebrities saying, “Now that ‘woke’ Indian celebrities and the middle class stand in solidarity with fighting systemic racism in America, perhaps they’d see how it manifests in their own backyard?,” according to the UK Metro.

Other Indian celebs, including actresses Deepika Padukone and Sonam Kapoor, were also slammed for speaking out about the Black Lives Matter movement while promoting skin-lightening creams, the outlet reported.

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A Brooklyn court officer was suspended and is under investigation for allegedly posting images that depict the lynchings of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, The Post has learned

Sgt. Terri Pinto Napolitano’s gun was taken away and she was referred to the state court systems’ inspector general for an investigation over the post on her Facebook page over the weekend, which shows doctored images of the former president and former secretary of state.

Titled “The True American Dream,” the post shows Obama hanging from a rope, with the words “We Will Not Yield” and “Your day is coming TRAITOR!”

The second photo appears to show Clinton as she is walked to the gallows by seven people, with the words “IT’S NOT OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SWINGS.”

The post, which has since been deleted, drew a sharp rebuke Saturday from New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.

“This conduct is abhorrent, by anyone, at any time, and under any circumstances,” DiFiore wrote to court system personnel. “But at this critical moment in our history — when our nation is reeling from the death of George Floyd and its aftermath — it is a sickening and unpardonable offense against every colleague in our court system, as well as the vast and diverse public we serve.”

“We assure you that we have already begun the process and will take every step within our power so that this conduct is condemned and punished appropriately.”

A spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration told The Post Sunday that “Sgt. Napolitano has been suspended for 30 days” and “had her gun taken” pending the inspector general’s review.

She was most recently assigned to Brooklyn Criminal Court, sources said.

Napolitano could not be reached for comment Sunday.

But the controversy drew the ire of some of the sergeant’s colleagues.

“She’s a disgrace,” said one court officer who worked with Napolitano in the past. “Absolutely. You’re going to boroughs where minorities are trying to move ahead and you disgrace the shield. She should be fired.”

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The cocker spaniel belonging to the white woman who called police on Christian Cooper, a black man who was bird-watching in Central Park in May, has been returned to her.

“Abandoned Angels would like to express its gratitude for the outpouring of support regarding the dog that was recently placed in our custody, following release of a troubling video that was brought to our attention,” according to a statement from Abandoned Angels Cocker Spaniel Rescue, the shelter from where Cooper adopted the dog.

The dog had been evaluated by its veterinarian, “who found that he was in good health,” the statement said. Various New York City law enforcement agencies declined to take the dog into custody, according to the shelter.

“Accordingly, and consistent with input received from law enforcement, we have now complied with the owner’s request for return of the dog,” according to the statement.

The incident in the park

Amy Cooper called police on Christian Cooper (no relation) on May 25 during an encounter involving her unleashed dog. Amy Cooper was walking her dog while Christian Cooper was bird-watching at a wooded area of Central Park called the Ramble. They both told CNN their dispute began because her dog was not on a leash, contrary to the Ramble’s rules, according to the park’s website.

The incident was seen as another example of white people calling the police on African Americans for mundane things.

Christian Cooper recorded video of part of their encounter and posted it on Facebook, where it has since been shared thousands of times and became a trending topic on Twitter. In the video, he is largely silent while she frantically tells police he is threatening her and her dog.

“I’m taking a picture and calling the cops,” Amy Cooper is heard saying in the video. “I’m going to tell them there’s an African American man threatening my life.”

While she’s on the phone, her dog appears to be straining and trying to get free while she tries to restrain it by its collar. After the incident, her dog was surrendered to the shelter he was adopted from a few years prior.

Cooper also lost her job with Franklin Templeton after the incident.

In comments to CNN as the video spread widely, Amy Cooper said she wanted to “publicly apologize to everyone.”

“I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” she said, adding that she also didn’t mean any harm to the African American community.

Christian Cooper told CNN’s Don Lemon that he accepted her apology.

“I think her apology is sincere,” Cooper said. “I’m not sure that in that apology she recognizes that while she may not be or consider herself a racist, that particular act was definitely racist.”

But Christian Cooper also said he was disturbed by the fact that people were making death threats toward Amy Cooper, which he called abhorrent.

“I find it strange that people who were upset that … that she tried to bring death by cop down on my head, would then turn around and try to put death threats on her head. Where is the logic in that?” he said. “Where does that make any kind of sense?”

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