Petey posted:

The police officer who released the photos has been relieved of duty.

hcreight posted:

Holy poo poo, the top comment on this article is actually... a good comment!

Aaron K Kraus posted:

If your objection is that the cover photo glamorizes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and presents him as an enticing role model to young readers because of his looks then you’re rightly concerned about something that has nothing to do with Rolling Stone.

If your objection is that the cover photo humanizes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and presents him as a multi-demensional -- even sympathetic -- figure, well you have just confronted one of humanity’s starkest truths: that we are all humans, endowed with a tremendous capacity for both evil and empathy. Again, your concern has nothing to do with Rolling Stone.

If your objection is that the cover photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev disrespects the victims of his alleged crimes because it focuses on the criminal rather than the crimes then you’re arguing for such a narrow view of journalism and journalistic priorities that the end product would probably do little to educate, enlighten, and engage readers.

If your objection is that Rolling Stone’s intention is to drive sales with sensational cover photos, well, yeah.

Then again, see the photos above, linked online, to drive traffic.

Muscle Tracer posted:

I know people are making a big deal out of Rolling Stone getting pulled from shelves over this, but I think it must be reaching a lot of people specifically because of all this ~outrage~. I know I certainly wouldn't have read the (excellent) profile if it hadn't been for the uproar. It'll be interesting to hear numbers from them afterwards, and, of course, to see other media outlets continue to make a huge, shallow deal out of him while decrying Rolling Stone for actually going in-depth.

Michael Scott posted:

MrQwerty posted:

He looks like more of a rockstar here, standing upon his own volition after blowing his neck out, covered in blood with a laser on his forehead, than he did in a soft-focus shot of him looking like a normal person. Good one, I guess, stick it to him.

swickles posted:

Also, is that last picture from irrelephant's post actually him. They have an ambu over him, which would mean he isn't breathing on his own. Is that his brother?

irrelephant posted:

Michael Scott posted:

It's unknown if he hurt his neck himself. Personally, I think the neck wound was cop-inflicted. I think he may have also been wounded by the flashbang grenades used. Bet those things hurt when they explode on top of you.

irrelephant posted:

MrQwerty posted:

Either way, I believe my point is cogent.

Earwicker posted:

I was under the impression that it was one cop who released the photos and that cop has since been relieved of duty - it's not like "the police" as an entity intentionally released them so I don't see how it would help the defense in any way.

Frinkahedron posted:

Boston Magazine is running some photos taken by a Boston PD photographer in response to the rolling stone cover. I don't give a drat about why (I think the outrage is ridiculous), but they are good photos:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/07/18/tsarnaev/


Yes that is a sniper's laser dot.

Seems like their website is getting slammed right now, refresh a few times if it doesn't come up.

Toffile posted:

I never said that it was the actions of police as a collective. I've been more wondering if this might be beneficial to the defense as a reason for a change of venue.

Earwicker posted:

I don't see how these images could be said to have more of an effect on the trial than images of the bombing itself, which are everywhere, or the many other pictures from the case that are also everywhere. I mean these are well shot photos of a specific moment we haven't seen before, but they offer no new information whatsoever about the crime that Jahar is on trial for.

Toffile posted:

I was discussing the current state of the jury pool, not so much if the pictures would taint it in the future.

Is it possible to get an impartial jury in a venue where police officers have taken it upon themselves to circumvent procedure because of public outrage? I think that bit is new information, or maybe I missed a prior case of misconduct.

I know that McVeigh ended up being tried in Denver, not Oklahoma. And as far as I know, Tsarnaev was going to be tried in Boston.

Neutrino posted:

People were outraged when the Roman Stone magazine published a front page picture of Nero on the cover of the June 64 issue after he set fire to Rome. They thought they could change things in future issues by banning pictures of Nero but We Forgot.

my darling feet posted:

Happier photos - I don't know if anyone goes to the Reverse sand sculpting festivals, but the theme was "Boston Strong."



Who should be in there but ...



I work with his wife, and she sent me this photo when I sent her the first one.

Toffile posted:

I was discussing the current state of the jury pool, not so much if the pictures would taint it in the future.

Is it possible to get an impartial jury in a venue where police officers have taken it upon themselves to circumvent procedure because of public outrage?

haljordan posted:

Not sure if there have been any other cases yet, but some woman in my area just got arrested for scamming almost $500,000 out of the One Fund Boston (which she promptly used to try and buy a house). She also got arrested a few years ago for leaving her kids in the car while she went to shoplift from a Macy's so, yeah, she probably guilty. She's fighting extradition back to Massachusetts, but aren't those requests pretty much rubber stamped most of the time?


edit: I forgot, the shoplifting thing took place on fuckin' Christmas Eve. Classic.

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At 5 p.m. on April 18, three days after the bombs went off at the marathon finish line, the F.B.I. released grainy photographs of two suspects. For the past month, the Tripathis had been renting a house and spending their days working with F.B.I. agents, Brown administrators and an organization dedicated to finding missing persons. Early on in the search, the family created a Facebook page called “Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi,” which included video messages from family and friends and recent images of Sunil — walking the beach with his older brother, Ravi; attending his sister’s graduation ceremony; posing with his mother at a Phillies game.

Minutes after the world first saw the suspects’ photos, a user on Reddit, the online community that is also one of the largest Web sites in the world, posted side-by-side pictures comparing Sunil’s facial features with the face that would later be identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The pictures were accompanied by speculation about the circumstances surrounding Sunil’s disappearance and the F.B.I.’s involvement in his search. By 8 p.m., three hours after the F.B.I. released the suspects’ photos, angry messages began to appear on the Tripathi’s Facebook page, and at 8:15 Ravi received a phone call from a reporter at ABC News in New York, who asked if Sunil had been spotted in Boston and if Ravi had seen the F.B.I. photos of Suspect No. 2. Ravi, unclear at what she was getting at, told her there had been no word from Sunil. As the minutes passed and the volume of threatening Facebook messages increased, the Tripathis finally called their F.B.I. contact in Providence, who assured them that nobody within his office believed that Sunil was Suspect No. 2.

The family had been told that missing people sometimes go to libraries or other places with free Internet service, where they type their own names into search engines to track their cases. The Facebook page was created with the hope that if Sunil searched for himself, he would find loving messages from his family and friends. Now they worried that he would see what was being written about him and take drastic measures to harm himself. Around 11 p.m., at roughly the same time that the news came out that Sean Collier, a 27-year-old police officer at M.I.T., had been shot and killed, the Tripathis closed the page so that no more messages could come in.

Peruser posted:

Didn't they find his body in a river or something a few weeks ago or is that another lie I'm falling for?

Kilonum posted:

it was actually 8 days after the bombings (the 23rd of April)

Also, Monday was Dzhokhar's 20th birthday. Glad he spent it in a cage.