(CNN) -- The backlash over Rolling Stone's cover photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev led to the release of new photos of his capture Thursday, images a police photographer said show "the real Boston bomber." 
 
 In contrast to the tousle-haired, placid-looking 19-year-old on the front of the magazine, the new pictures show Tsarnaev emerging from the boat where he was cornered -- his face smeared with blood, his skin ashen in the laser glow from snipers' gun sights. 
 
 In one, he pulls up his shirt, apparently showing he has no weapon underneath; in another, he slumps across the deck of the trailered boat, his bloodied arm hanging down. 
 
 The pictures were taken by Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Sean Murphy and published online by Boston Magazine on Thursday afternoon. 
 
 Boston Marathon Terror Attack: Fast Facts 
 
 In a statement accompanying the photos, Murphy called the Rolling Stone cover "an insult" and "hurtful" to survivors of the April 15 bombings. 
 
 "This guy is evil," Murphy said. "This is the real Boston bomber. Not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine." 
 
 John Wolfson, Boston Magazine's editor in chief, said the magazine has hundreds of similar photos and will publish more in its September issue. He said Murphy was "conflicted on some level" about releasing the photos, but "genuinely worried" about how the Rolling Stone cover will affect the victims' families. 
 
 "I think he was also worried that certain impressionable people might be lured to replicate that by the kind of glamorous-looking photo that is on the Rolling Stone cover," Wolfson told CNN's "The Situation Room." 
 
 Woman gets new leg - and new life - after Boston bombings 
 
 A Massachusetts State Police spokesman said that the agency had not authorized the photos' release. 
 
 "Today's dissemination to Boston Magazine of photographs of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev and police activity related to his capture was not authorized by the Massachusetts State Police," spokesman David Procopio said in a statement issued Thursday night. "The department will not release the photographs to media outlets. The State Police will have no further comment on this matter tonight." 
 
 Procopio told CNN late Thursday night that Murphy had been relieved of duty for one day and will have a status hearing to determine whether he will be on full duty, restricted duty or suspended during an internal police investigation. 
 
 The hearing will likely be next week, Procopio said. 
 
 Murphy could not be immediately reached for comment. 
 
 Tsarnaev is awaiting trial on federal charges in the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 on April 15. In addition, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot to death during the dramatic pursuit of Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a gun battle with police. 
 
 Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. 
 
 Did missed connections in murder case open door to Boston bombings? 
 
 Rolling Stone has defended its decision to profile Tsarnaev, whom the same cover called a "monster." The magazine said the story "falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day." 
 
 But the cover photo has sparked fury on social media and prompted several retail chains to pull the issue from their racks. 
 
 Still, some people seemed eager to sell it. 
 
 By Thursday, the eBay auction website listed dozens of copies of the controversial edition of Rolling Stone for sale. 
 
 CNN's Dave Alsup and Laura Batchelor contributed to this report. ||||| The Massachusetts State Police photographer who leaked photos of a bloody, defeated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during his capture is getting public support as he faces potential punishment from his bosses. 
 
 A "Save Sgt. Sean Murphy" group on Facebook had more than 32,700 "likes" on Sunday afternoon -- three days after Murphy leaked the stark photos to Boston Magazine in response to Rolling Stone's latest cover, which features the suspected Boston Marathon bomber. 
 
 Murphy, a tactical photographer, was suspended after the leak and faces a disciplinary hearing as soon as this week. 
 
 "Please help me save Sgt. Sean Murphy from losing his job with the Massachusetts State Police," states the anonymous page's "About" section. "This petition is to save Trooper Sean Murphy his job. He did what I think most of us would have liked to do or would have done had we had the same resources." 
 
 The Rolling Stone controversy has continued to provoke strong feelings in Boston and beyond, with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) weighing in against the cover Sunday. Critics accused the magazine of giving Tsarnaev, 19, rock-star treatment and romanticizing his alleged involvement in the bombings while not paying homage to the blasts' victims. 
 
 "It's stupid," McCain said in a CNN appearance. "I thought it was glorifying an individual that represents a great threat to innocent lives and was responsible for the taking of innocent lives." 
 
 Others responded that the New York Times ran the same Tsarnaev photo on its front page without receiving the same criticism, and that portraying Tsarnaev as a teen heartthrob served to confound stereotypes of what Islamic extremism looks like. (The actual story on Tsarnaev by Janet Reitman has been praised as solid examination of Tsarnaev's life as a wayward American college student with only quiet hints of holding radical views.) 
 
 The glorification debate was further complicated Thursday when Boston Magazine published Murphy's photos, along with a comment from Murphy. 
 
 "An image like this on the cover of Rolling Stone, we see it instantly as being wrong," wrote Murphy, who said he knew firsthand that victims' families had been disturbed by the magazine's cover. "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.” 
 
 But the release of the official photos was unauthorized, and some experts have expressed concern that their release could interfere with the pending federal criminal case against Tsarnaev. 
 
 Critics also fired back that photos of Tsarnaev incurring a massive police response could still be interpreted as glorification. 
 
 "We certainly disagree with that perspective, but people will see what they want to see in these photos," the magazine's Jason Schwartz wrote in a follow-up to the photos' publication. "Bottom line: This is news, this is how it happened." 
 
 On the Facebook group, users rallied behind Murphy. 
 
 "As a military veteran I understand Sgt. Murphy broke the rules, however; I'm glad he did it!" one user wrote. "It is my opinion that he hit the nail on the head with his views on the Rolling Stone cover of that coward." 
 
 "The people who were victimized by this evil man and his brother are re-victimized by the poor choices made by Rolling Stones editorial staff," another said. "Victims and their families are further traumatized in 'safe' places like the grocery store when they see this photo. Thank God for Sgt. Murphy's actions, helping to prevent idolizing this monster." 
 
 "While I understand Sgt. Murphy was not authorized to release the pictures, the cover of Rolling Stone was such a travesty any normal person could understand how he could do it," a third user wrote. "I think while his employers need to take disciplinary action, firing is too strong. I hope they will reconsider. God bless you, Sgt. Thank you for standing up to speak for all of us." 
 
 Murphy has not spoken with the media since his suspension, but the debate rages on. 
 
 "No one, not even a publicly despised nineteen-year-old, has just one true face," the New Yorker's Ian Crouch wrote in response to Murphy. "The image of Tsarnaev on Rolling Stone is as real as the picture of him in a sniper’s sights — it is merely that we prefer the one in which he was brought to justice to the one in which he was free." 
 
 ALSO: 
 
 'Justice for Trayvon' rallies unfold across the U.S. 
 
 Roller coaster death at Six Flags Over Texas park investigated 
 
 Hundreds rally for Trayvon Martin: 'A child,' weeping mother says
– A Massachusetts state policeman was furious over Rolling Stone's contentious new cover, which he saw as "glamorizing the face of terror"—so the "tactical photographer" yesterday released some Dzhokhar Tsarnaev photos of his own. The images, handed to Boston Magazine, offer an up-close look at Tsarnaev's capture: In one, he stands covered in blood, apparently pulling up his shirt to show he has no weapon, CNN reports. Some show a sharpshooter's red dot on his head, NPR notes. "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," Sgt. Sean Murphy tells Boston Magazine. Following the photos' unauthorized release, Murphy has been "relieved of duty" for one day, CNN notes. A hearing, probably next week, will rule on his job status, a police rep says. Click to see the photos.