|July 19, 2013 10:24 EDT
Tsarnaev's Releaved: Insider Look at the Boston Bomber's last moments by Police Photographer, Response to Glamorized 'Rolling Stone' cover
Angered by the Rolling Stone's cover of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a state police tactical photographer, Sgt. Sean Murphy, released images of Tsarnaev's last moments during the manhunt that led to his capture. The hopes of the release are that the glamorization of Tsarnaev by Rolling Stone's would be brought back to reality, and that American's would be reminded that Tsarnaev was not a fallen rock star, but a malicious terrorist.
"I hope that the people who see these images will know that this was real. It was as real as it gets," Sergeant Sean P. Murphy told Boston Magazine.
Tsarnaev was charge with killing four people and seriously wounding hundreds of others by setting off 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon earlier this year.
In a statement, Murphy said in response to the Rolling Stone cover, "As a professional law-enforcement officer of 25 years, I believe that the image that was portrayed by Rolling Stone magazine was an insult to any person who has ever worn a uniform of any color or any police organization or military branch, and the family members who have ever lost a loved one serving in the line of duty. The truth is that glamorizing the face of terror is not just insulting to the family members of those killed in the line of duty, it also could be an incentive to those who may be unstable to do something to get their face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine."
Murphy continued ,"This may have played out as a television show, but this was not a television show. Officer Dick Donohue almost gave his life. Officer Sean Collier did give his life. These were real people, with real lives, with real families. I know from first-hand conversations that this Rolling Stone cover has kept many of them up-again. It's irritated the wounds that will never heal-again. There is nothing glamorous in bringing more pain to a grieving family. Photography is very simple, it's very basic. It brings us back to the cave. An image like this on the cover of Rolling Stone, we see it instantly as being wrong. What Rolling Stone did was wrong. This guy is evil. This is the real Boston bomber. Not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine."