Update to this story.

(Politico) – The New York Times is defending its characterization of Michael Brown as “no angel” in an article ahead of his burial on Monday.

“Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life,” the story reads. […]

In an interview with The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple, New York Times National Editor Alison Mitchell said the description connects to the lead paragraph of the piece, which describes a moment in Brown’s life when he thought he saw an angel.

“I think, actually, we have a nuanced story about the young man and if it had been a white young man in the same exact situation, if that’s where our reporting took us, we would have written it in the same way,” Mitchell told Wemple.