Why are women guarding male prisoners?
That’s what I’d like to know.
Rikers does have women prisoners, too.
I suspect that may be a woman prisoner who is trans male. The prisoner is 5’ 6” and the description is kind of written to hide that fact. For example the guard who was assaulted ‘held him back’ with one hand and sprayed with another. The initial attack failed and the prisoner ‘backed up’ until the male officer arrived. The prisoner ‘pushed the male officer aside’ which makes me think the male guard was cautious about using full strength/tactics on a biological female.
I think that male officer may have underestimated the threat if it was a biological female prisoner because we’re not really socialized to dread female on female ‘rapists’. The jerk in charge laughed etc. THey weren’t present when these women were sexually assaulted. The writer would like us to believe that the males involved were simply misogynist. I think the one in charge failed because attacked is attacked. Sexually assaulted is sexually assaulted. It was traumatic for both victims and it could have been avoided.
If the woke writer had just made it clearer...ah but we protect the trans label and this prisoner doesn’t impress.
That was my first thought.