Caught on camera, Arizona woman gets slapped for racist rant

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, June 13

A video of a woman in Arizona being slapped for a racist rant against a Native American woman is being widely circulated online.

The incident surfaced from a gas station at Phoenix. The recorded clip, shows, Tamara Harrian—a white woman—telling a customer checking out at the cash register, that she wasn’t welcomed to the store, and that she needed to go back where she came from.

Greg Conn—who was present at the store—recorded the entire incident between Harrian and the other woman—Karina Rodriguez.

In the clip, Harrian was seen walking up to him and saying: “You need to leave, you’re not a part of this”.

She goes back to Rodriguez and asks her where she was born.

To which, she replied: “I was born in America, b—-, where are your ancestors from?”

Picking their bags up, Rodriguez and her husband start to head out, but Harrian continued to insult her.

She even grabbed Rodriguez’s arm. In response, Rodriguez slapped Harrian.

A startled Harrian then walks out of the store.

“Racism is alive and well,” Conn wrote while sharing the footage.

The video got over 1.2 million views and many supported Rodriguez’s actions, saying it was “self-defence”.

Harrian’s husband apologised for her actions, saying she suffers from an undiagnosed mental illness that she has refused to accept treatment for. Talking to NBC News, her husband Bob Harrian said, “Horrible things were said and a lot of those horrible things came from my wife. It came from a spot of an illness.”