> Sarcasm and jaded humour can come across really badly when you taken out of context.
Yep, especially when you leave just enough out of the parts you quote to be able to spin this into either a cops-are-evil, cops-are-misogynist, or cops-are-racist narrative to suit your audience. "No, she's just a normal person" is deliberately omitted from the article, despite it establishing the context for everything reported on.
> I spent a bit of time in an environment around helping people with disabilities and this sounds quite familiar. It had the worst jokes and the most horrible kind of humour.
You get it. Most of us have been there or participated in it ourselves, whether or not we admit it.
The sad part is, he wasn't making Frogger jokes or anything-- he was making a statement about the criteria by which the city would justify undercompensating the victim's family for their loss. He's clearly disillusioned with the institution he works for...same as the rest of us.
Rather than using his inadvertent disclosure to ask some very pointed questions about how the city has historically compensated families for civilian deaths (where did he come up the idea for an $11k payout?), the internet outrage machine is spun up to crucify the guy who made a private gaffe about it.