19.07 US Police Photog Suspended for Releasing Tsarnaev Capture Pictures

WASHINGTON, July 19 (by Karin Zeitvogel for RIA Novosti) � A Massachusetts State Police officer who gave a Boston magazine scores of pictures that he took of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during his capture has been suspended from the force, the editor of the magazine that published the photos said.

�Sgt. Sean Murphy has been relieved of duty,� John Wolfson, the editor of Boston Magazine, which published 14 of the hundreds of pictures taken by Murphy of Tsarnaev and the police effort to find him, said on Twitter late Thursday.

�Took his gun, badge, computer and more. He has been ordered not to talk to media or anyone else about events at Watertown,� Wolfson said in a series of tweets.

Boston Magazine published the images Thursday, including some that showed a battered and bloody Tsarnaev emerging from the tarpaulin-covered boat that he hid in for hours as a massive police manhunt closed down the city of Boston and the nearby suburb of Watertown.

Murphy, a tactical photographer for the Massachusetts State Police with 25 years of service under his belt, said he had handed over the pictures because he was furious that �Rolling Stone� magazine had put Tsarnaev on its cover this week.

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