What is the situational irony in the excerpt from "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

The narrator is himself a well-liked member of the Burmese government.

George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" features the ironic theme that, as Orwellwrites, "when the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys." This issituational irony, which occurs when an action has unintended consequences that are the opposite of what was expected or desired.