Boston magazine runs bloody bomber photos in response to Rolling Stone

Photos of a bloody Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken by a police sergeant show what the magazine calls ‘the real face of terror.’

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Now, Boston, in an online piece credited to Wolfson, has given one of those very upset people an outlet to counter what’s being called Rolling Stone‘s glamour shot with dark, highly unglamorous photos of a bloody Tsarnaev just before he was caught by police after a daylong manhunt. The headline on the article is: “The true face of terror.”

Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police, provided the photos to Boston magazine, along with a statement calling the Rolling Stone cover an “insult to any person who has every (sic) 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.”

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