(DNAINFO)  Noah Horowitz | May 24, 2017 — Michael Brown was “a teenager with promise.” To Alexandra Bell, that’s all that matters.

For the past several months Bell, a Crown Heights artist, has been hanging posters around Brooklyn criticizing the way newspaper headlines handle issues of race, with her most prolific project singling out the New York Times for its stories about Michael Brown, the black, unarmed teen killed by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson.

The stories ran side by side below the fold on the front page of the Times on Aug. 24, 2014. Underneath a headline that read “Two Lives at a Crossroads in Fergusonâ€, Wilson’s story bore the headline “A Low-Profile Officer with Unsettled Early Days†while Brown’s read “A Teenager Grappling with Problems and Promise.â€

The story about Wilson paints a picture of an officer described as a “good†but “nondescript kid†by a former coach, and “well-mannered, relatively soft-spoken, even bland person who seemed, if anything, to seek out a low profile.â€

Brown’s story depicted him with a quote that would become a rallying cry at Black Lives Matter protests that roiled cities nationwide following his death: “He was no angel.â€

“I can just say ‘the No Angel story’ and people are like ‘oh man, I remember that, yeah’,†Bell said. “That article was infamous.â€

Following public outcry, the Times’ former Public Editor Margaret Sullivan called the phrase a “regrettable mistake.â€

Source: Artist Slams NY Times Michael Brown Coverage with Posters in Bed-Stuy – Bed-Stuy – DNAinfo New York