$WEET SPOT FOR POLICE

Charity push after snub

This charity runs on Dunkin’. NYPD supporters — disgusted by a Brooklyn Dunkin’ Donuts worker’s refusal to serve two cops — are donating money to a department charity and say the pastry chain should kick in some dough to show it’s sorry.

Melinda Cox Hall, of Tennessee, gifted $500 to the New York City Police Foundation Sunday and said, if she can afford it, so can a company with $800-milliona-year revenues.

“I could put up $500. For what they did for these police officers, how sorry are they? How much do they think it’s worth?” she told The Post Sunday.

Since she posted a challenge to Dunkin’ Donuts on Twitter, at least $2,000 more was sent to the police foundation by people outraged at the fast-food chain, according to Hall.

The nonprofit, which helps pay for cops’ training and equipment, does not reveal donors.

Hall started the push after reading revelations in The Post that a worker at a Dunkin’ Donuts/ Baskin Robbins on Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant refused to sell ice cream to a pair of officers, telling them, “I don’t serve cops.” Dunkin’ Donuts tried to sugarcoat the incident, claiming the store’s layout confused the cops into standing at a closed register — a notion police unions called an “insult.” The victim-blaming inspired Frank Hendron of Wilmington, Del., to make a donation. “When corporations make excuses like Dunkin’ Donuts made — that’s outrageous,” he told The Post Monday after also donating $500. Houston police officer Kel Belle gave because she wants to counteract the disrespect police face. “I dug deep into my heart and said, ‘This has to stop,’ ” she told The Post. The national show of support proves not everyone has forgotten the daily sacrifices police officers make, according to foundation chairman H. Dale Hemmerdinger. “It is wonderful to see such an outpouring of support for law enforcement and the NYPD from people all across the country,” he said. Dunkin’ Donuts reps did not respond to requests for comment.