Ride4Cops, an initiative in which participants are striving to ride to each State Capitol to raise awareness of the inherent dangers of law enforcement and to support the friends and families that fallen officers leave behind, visited Boston, MA, on Saturday, 17 August.
With each ride, donations are collected and remain in the local community to help the spouses, parents, siblings, and children of officers killed in the line of duty. In their Boston visit, the Ride4Cops participants commemorated in a special way MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was killed in a confrontation with the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
A Ride4Cops events is planed in Maine on Monday, 19 August.
Media reports:
NECN: Police officers honor fallen comrades with motorcycle ride (17 AUG 13)
Boston Globe: Police ride pays tribute to fallen MIT officer (18 APR 13)
Boston Globe Photo Gallery: Ride4Cops honors Collier, fallen officers
Background information:
YouTube: C.O.P.S. - Harry Harington's Ride4Cops Brings Awareness to 50 States
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