What is "irresponsible" and "indefensible" exactly?

It wouldn't be permitting and collaborating with a construction project that exploited, endangered, and in fact, actually murdered, its workers.  It isn't doing everything possible to help the developers responsible for the exploitation, endangerment and murder to recover their financial losses (and perhaps then some.)  No, the thing that is apparently irresponsible and indefensible, we are told, is the public noticing and then talking about the obscene evidence of all of the above that confronts anyone passing through downtown.

The City asked residents not to take photos of the remains, which are clearly visible from the street.

"Capturing or sharing images of the victims in such a condition is irresponsible, it is indefensible, and it is not who we are as New Orleanians," Norton said.

It's not putting the victims in that condition that is the problem. It's acknowledging what's happened that really goes beyond the pale.