She went to prison because she wasn’t smart enough to walk off the job. You’re either a set armorer or you’re not, and when anyone, including the director tells you to violate standards, you walk away.
Yours is the most accurate of the comments, Gutierrez-Reed did have the legal and positional authority to walk off the job, close down the set, inform and require cooperation from the Sheriff, and walk away free and clear
before the shooting occurred.She failed to do that, and became Patsy.