Maria Laguerta viewed by new lens

The first time i watched the show i disliked her as much as anyone else and felt she was the worst person in the department.

But now, after watching the show a second time and seeing how much she cared about the little kid they found at the crime scene, I can't help but feel bad for her.
Yes, she was a bit of an asshole sometimes, but so are we. Or so am i, at least.

She was a black woman in a field dominated by men in the 90s.
She had to be a player, or she would not make it. She learned to be like that.

***Major spoiler from later seasons ahead***

In the end, everything she accomplished was lost in a shipping container yard. She ended up as a troubled woman who couldn’t accept that her ex was the Bay Harbour Butcher and lost her life in a shootout after trying to frame a colleague.

It's the same thing with Doakes. He was an asshole and had a dark passenger himself, but he was right all along.