Meet Gianna Stammati, a woman living in the City of Gatineau, Quebec. She was born in the Gallipoli region of Italy, and moved to Canada with her family twenty five years ago. For quite some time, Gianna Stammati has been working for the people of Quebec as a policewoman. A ten-year veteran of the Gatineau Police Force, Gianna has a reputation as a cop who takes her job a bit too seriously.
Gatineau Police Officer Gianna Stammati was caught on camera making threats against a trio of young men of Somali and Arabian descent, whose car she pulled over during a routine traffic stop. The incident was caught on tape and shown around Canada and the rest of the world. Overnight, Gianna Stammati became persona non grata, and her career as a policewoman was in jeopardy. The Gatineau Police force was on damage control mode...
Nowadays, with incidents pitting the police against racial minorities gaining a lot of notoriety thanks to the Internet, police departments all over North America have enacted policies and procedures for dealing with such situations. In the case of Gatineau policewoman Gianna Stammati, a cop whose animosity toward minority males is well-documented, the top brass felt they had to handle the situation delicately. Something had to be done...
"Mademoiselle Stammati, you are hereby suspended for four weeks without pay and must undergo racial sensitivity training," said Captain Jean-Robert Picard, leader of the Gatineau Police Force. The tall, silver-haired, blue-eyed French Canadian policeman looked at Gianna Stammati, one of the toughest cops he'd ever met, and shook his head. This broad has gone too far, the Captain thought.
Gatineau Police Captain Jean-Robert Picard is a cop's cop, and a man who typically sides with his brothers and sisters in blue against everyone else. Gianna Stammati's ways with minorities are well-known to just about everyone in the Gatineau Police Service. Hell, a young Haitian-born police officer named Louis Guillaume, who was once supervised by Gianna Stammati asked to be transferred out of her division and his request was granted. The Captain tried to protect Gianna but the pudgy Italian policewoman had run out of second chances...
"All I did was do my job," Gianna protested vehemently, right before Captain Stammati ordered her out of his office. I had enough of this plump Italian bitch and her bad attitude, Captain Picard thought. Gianna walked out of the Captain's Office, shaking her head in disbelief. Tall and chubby, with long dark hair, bronze skin and lively brown eyes, Gianna Stammati walked to the women's locker room, and left the building after changing out of her uniform.
While Gianna Stammati walked out of the Gatineau police headquarters, feeling dirty for the first time in ages. Gianna remembered the first time she put on the police uniform and how proud she felt. Gianna Stammati has worn the police uniform of the Gatineau Police Service for a long time, but after the day she had, she felt like tossing it away. The shame that Gianna felt had nothing to do with the incident, and everything to do with the spinelessness of her fellow police officers...
Gianna Stammati believes in tough love, and she feels that scaring young minority men into good behavior is the way to go. The three young minority guys in the car that Gianna Stammati stopped went home unscathed at the end of the incident. If I were racist I would have hurt them physically instead of berating them, Gianna thought sourly. Why couldn't the police captain and the Canadian media cut her some slack?