To preface: I’m devastated over Poussey’s death. She was one of the best characters in the show, one of my favorites, and I cried the entirety of the last episode of this season.
HOWEVER, I disagree with the people who are in outrage over the fact that the show paints Bayley in a sympathetic light. I disagree with the people who say that he’s a cold blooded murderer.
Were these people even watching the same show I was?? Do they really think that things are that simple??
Bayley wasn’t properly trained, at all. He didn’t know how to properly restrain the inmates, and he certainly wasn’t prepared to do so while also fending off another.
Suffocating Poussey was an accident, he didn’t realize what had happened.
For fucks sake, the kid didn’t even know she was DEAD until his boss TOLD HIM.
And you know what?? He was DEVASTATED. He was torn up and in tears on the ride home, he wanted to go and apologize to her friends, try to tell them it was an accident and he didn’t want to hurt her.
Did you all forget how disgusted he was when the other guards forced Suzanne and Kukudio to fight?? He went and turned them in, because he was actually WORRIED ABOUT THE PRISONERS. HE WAS WORRIED BECAUSE THE OTHER CO’S WERE ABUSING THEIR POWER AND HURTING PEOPLE AND HE WANTED TO STOP IT.
Does that sound like someone who would intentionally kill someone in his care??
Poussey’s death was a tragedy. But it was an accident. Bayley was in way over his head from the very start.
And the people saying he was a horrible person, that he was a murderer, were obviously not paying ANY fucking attention.
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