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CVS Won't Carry Issue With Boston Bombing Suspect On Cover
The Woonsocket-based pharmacy chain announced that it won't sell the controversial magazine when it's released on Friday.
Woonsocket-based CVS/Caremark announced on Wednesday that it will not sell the newest edition of Rolling Stone magazine featuring accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover.
CVS has one store in North Kingstown.
The pharmacy chain issued a statement which said, in part, that it decided not to carry the issue "out of respect for the victims of the attack and their loved ones," according to Boston Magazine online.
In a spot typically reserved for iconic rock stars, Tsarnaev's face appears on the new issue, due on newsstands on Friday.
The feature has sparked outrage across social media. A Facebook Page "Boycott Rolling Stone Magazine for their latest cover" had a rapidly growing 36,000 followers on Wednesday morning around 11 a.m.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a standoff with police on Friday, April 19, was the husband of a North Kingstown woman.
With additional reporting by Olga Enger, Editor of Newport Patch.
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