Turned A lot of people react really badly to the police. I'd also think it was a bit of a jokey response rather than an unpleasant sarky one.
I went on a date with a muslim man. It wasn't obvious from his photos or by the way he'd shortened his name.
He'd had some very negative reactions when revealing this fact - women he'd been emailing just disappeared and other women he'd been IMing with left the conversation and blocked him!
I did suggest that he was better of screening out arses like this before meeting them and he said that he hoped that someone would get to know him before they just saw A Muslim.
We had a really lovely evening and what started off as a quick coffee at 5pm ended up with me getting home at 1.30am and was almost 3 dates in one. We didn't see each other again, but that was for reasons I'm not prepared to disclose. He was the man I met who would have had a "I went on this one date..." bad date story. And it was all my fault
Pity, he was quite cute and rather sexy and a very good kisser...
My point being that when people have had negative reactions to something about themselves, it does tend to make them a little defensive in the future because they don't want to be judged negatively unnecessarily.