Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may be gracing the cover of Rolling Stone, but a Massachusetts police officer who was present for the manhunt and shootout that led to his arrest wants to set the record straight with pictures of his own.

Sergeant Sean Murphy is a tactical photographer for the Massachusetts State Police, and he has released photos he took of Tsarnaev during his capture. They show the alleged bomber in a much less appealing light.

Tsarnaev rises from the boat he had hidden in overnight, bloody hand raised against the stern spotlight that illuminates him in the dark. A sniper's red aiming dot paints his forehead.

Murphy released the photos without authorization, and he has now been relieved of duty. The sergeant said he gave the photos to Boston Magazine, which ran a spread of them, to counter the more glamorous photo Rolling Stone ran on their cover, which shows Tsarnaev in a soflty-lit self-shot taken before the marathon bombing.

""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 every 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," Murphy told Boston Magazine.

"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."