The following post originally appeared on the Daily Kos under the title, “The demonization of a dead, unarmed teenager is well underway…”

By: Barbara Morrill

Well, that didn’t take long. Barely two hours after Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jacksonnamed the police officer who gunned down 18-year old Michael Brown last Saturday, and the demonization of—you guessed it—Michael Brown is well underway. Just a few headlines from around the web:

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