LOWELL (KFSM) - The family of former Lowell Police Chief Joe Landers is calling for people to put blue lights on their porches and leave them burning to honor slain officers.
"Cops are being killed around the world for simply being police," according to a post on Sunday (Dec. 21) on the "Pray for Joe Landers" Facebook page. Landers, 51, was killed in 2012 when the motorcycle he was riding in Florida was struck by a car in a hit-and-run incident, records show. A 53-year-old man found to be driving under the influence was sentenced to 12 years in prison in the death, records show.
The Joe Landers Facebook page indicates his family is creating an event called "Turn The Neighborhood Blue."
"I'm asking everyone to put blue lights on their porches and leave them burning for those who were killed," the Facebook entry states. "Post a pic and town, state with #turntheneighborhoodblue."
The Facebook post came one day after two New York police officers were shot and killed while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn by an assailant who later killed himself, authorities said.