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Originally Posted by Coach
Gutierrez was found guilty FYI.
She deserves it, but I hope it doesn't allow others to escape responsibility. She's not the only one at fault. I thought her lawyer did a terrible job of painting how under resourced she was while being pressured by production. In my experience, would have been easy to show that with comparables from other films. Maybe that's inadmissible stuff, I don't know. Seems relevant though.
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Maybe she wasn't that under resourced, relatively speaking? And if she was, why? Did she ever ask for the necessary resources? That would be part of her job, I assume.
As the armorer explains in that video above, it's also a pretty routine part of that job to stand up to people above you when it comes to gun safety, and if you're not doing that, then you're not doing your job.
Baldwins trial is currently scheduled for July, and looking at some of these videos, it seems like the Gutierrez trial was in part preparation for that one.
There's for example this
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where at least according to this crew member, Baldwin wasn't even supposed to point the gun at the camera. You can also clearly see him having his finger on the trigger, even in a situation when they're still just setting up the final shot (contrary to what Baldwin has said). That whole testimony feels like it's as much about Baldwin as it was about Gutierrez.
Baldwin will obviously have better lawyers than Gutierrez, so who knows how that's gonna go. But morally, clearly he's also responsible.