Orwell describes the crowd's reaction as a "devilish roar of glee what does this description suggest about his feelings toward the Burmese ?

The narrator of "Shooting an Elephant" is upfront and honest about his feelings toward the Burmese. He wants to like them, because he sympathizes with the way they are oppressed by their British overlords, but instead he hates them.
His hatred of the Burmese helps him to understand that imperialism is a rotten system that serves nobody well. He hates the Burmese because they resent him as a police officer and representative of the British empire. He hates them because they attempt to humiliate and undermine him. Even the Buddhist priests jeer at him. He says he would like to stick a bayonet in one of them.
He shoots the elephant even though there is no need to do so. The elephant is calm by the time he arrives. He knows too that the gun he has in hand is too small to quickly kill the elephant and that the animal will therefore die slowly and painfully. He also knows that the elephant's death will represent an economic loss for the owner. Nevertheless, he shoots the elephant, because he realizes the crowd expects it. He would lose face in front of the Burmese for backing off. His statement that the crowd responded with a "devilish roar of glee" reveals his frustration with the Burmese. Their expectation of a bloody spectacle puts him in the position of acting against both his commonsense and his conscience.

Throughout the short story, the narrator expresses his conflicting feelings towards the Burmese people. As a British police officer, the narrator sympathizes with the oppressed Burmese citizens, yet bitterly despises them because they make his job difficult. When the young police officer receives a call that a rogue elephant is rampaging through the city, he mentions that he has no intention of killing the elephant. However, a crowd of Burmese citizens begins to follow him, expecting the narrator to kill the large animal. At the climax of the story, the narrator aims his weapon at the elephant and feels the pressure from the crowd to kill the beast. As soon as the narrator pulls the trigger, he mentions,

"... I did not hear the bang or feel the kick—one never does when a shot goes home—but I heard the devilish roar of glee that went up from the crowd" (Orwell, 5).

The narrator's use of the words "devilish" and "roar" portray his negative feelings towards the Burmese citizens. In the police officer's opinion, the Burmese citizens act like bloodthirsty savages as they cheer once he shoots the elephant. The police officer does not appreciate their presence or their insistence that he kill the powerful animal.