So, someone who really should have known better decided to decorate his taxpayer-supplied office door in horribly bad taste. He received a standard discipline of time off with pay, and sensitivity training. Now, if he'd done it again, or continued in any other unacceptably insensitive behavior, then he could easily have been fired. But no, the politicians just had to capitulate to loudmouthed activists, which meant a payout.

This could easily have been written as the perils of politicians surrendering to self-appointed, loudmouthed activists, but given how stubbornly the Stranger still clings to 'defund SPD!' years after that miserable failure, I kind of doubt they'd write it that way.