It is completely irrelevant to the facts of what happened, but that is not how the media works. Bring up Uber and you get people reading the article and making comments on it. That drives traffic. If the guy was a sanitation worker, nobody cares. But since Uber is all over the news and is something new and disruptive, that becomes the hook to get us reading the shitty article. This is the same Washington Post that ran a story on how taxi drivers are racists without disclosing that Uber paid for the study and the article. Why would they do that? They got paid to. The media sucks, and it is getting worse at every level.I really don't get how his occupation is relevant or why media is focusing on that. How many nurses/cab drivers/personal care givers/doctors/lawyers etc. have been convicted of violent crimes? It's innumerable.