Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Sick and depraved can sadly sum up those in our world inclined to incite violence. Evil and wickedness spawned together to further intensify nothing but disaster. Your sincerest efforts, Officer Cook, helped to make Dade County a safer community once again. It took your entire soul of serenity and goodwill coupled with honor, dignity and integrity to battle this ferocious beast. A monster of mammoth proportions just waiting to swallow humanity down its throat. Only your devoted character and pride saved the day laying down enhancements for a better day tomorrow one made more happier if you were with your family. You'll only be fondly saluted and so honored for having the gumption and heroic humility by which to act. An outstanding man and a more stoic warrior. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
The shadows of heaven are forever over our society as they protect us and our dearly beloved and esteemed law enforcement members. Men and women with a prideful calling to serve and with honor and boldness go out into the very face of fierce evil and destroy its nucleus before it becomes larger and larger. You worked well , Officer Cook, here in Dade County where you resided with your family. A community that revered you and comrades who have fondly saluted your heroic legacy of character and the gentle breezes of humility, dignity and subtle integrity. No more harm will come your way as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
Honorable and valiant souls only concern themselves with saving life and the public. The wicked think they can run and flee from their vicious ways, how false they are. God sees them and repels after their violent paths of heinous destruction and doom. Your trails here in Dade County were made firm and safe, Officer Cook, by God's loving arms of grace and mercy. His scopes and compass never miss a beat nor are they half centered. The pursuits of a wise and intelligent man carrying his dreams along with humble honesty and integrity always made your dignity and class of character highlight your career. One sadly cut short by tragic violence against you, Officer Cook and your fellow officers that day. May 16, 1979 was a humility test passed with flying colors and the convictions built within your compassionate heart. Heroism never missed a beat for we know you faced onuses with an outstanding constitution. Saluted and etched forever in our hearts and minds. One swell soul of resolve and safety walking that sweet yet difficult beat in heaven's streets. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
Never shouting always low keyed and humble, your voice of command, leadership and reason travelled around Dade County as a balloon flying overhead with a message attached to it. Safety. Security. Honesty and the courtyards of courage and reverence. How else could unity go together with liberty and justice for all? peace and civility were your noblest of deeds, Officer Cook. And so was your heroic humility, integrity and the sands of character and faith. Devout and loyal, cherished and admired greatly. Those friendships and goodwill you broached during your professional life have stood tall and firm all these decades later after your unselfish sacrifice which has benefited our humanity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero in Our Master's most honorable haven of angelic heroes and heroines who knew bravery was their humane calling from above.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
Camping is fun and photography is too so long as your love of nature and its mystical outdoors never wanes. Never loved survival camping, Officer Cook, I'm sure as I read you were an outdoors kind of person. You were also an extremely intelligent and articulate gentleman of grace and sanctity. Policing our streets and their venues is never easy nor is dealing with the demands of stress and duress that tyranny and torment present. Dade County has its heroes and heroines such as you to thank, Officer Cook, Prosperity and liberty provided by your unwavering touches of perseverance as brought to those waiting on some by your God given talents and the incorporation of commitment, character and the bountiful wisdom and vision that make those that sacrifice legendary. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. With the right attitude, heaven's accolades for your life and career of courage, Officer Cook , will be flowing like honey.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
Talent, honesty and bravery surely help those devoted public servants where as mistrust, dishonor and disloyalty only disgrace the badges worn by those bold and dignified women and men and its in their blood the passions they put forth to serve and to protect the integrity and values of life so important. Desire and faith surely can deter detrimental behavior never allowed by any department. Your code of conduct, Officer Cook, was to live humbly, think wisely and resolve issues to the best of your capabilities. Dade County and their citizens were in your humanely heroic hands where a smile and some courtesy never hurt anyone. A man full of hobbies and passion pursuing happiness and gallantry the only way you could fair, forward and with unrelenting ferocity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
There can be no doubt that Badge#1664 was well known in the corridors of Dade County as it humbly and ably followed our safe passages and provided goodwill, peace and enthusiasm to all. Your demeanor, Officer Cook, was of a happy nature, open and honest, polite and well mannered, courteous and brave, surely God gave you your humility and the integrity to dignify your valiant calling for police work. Ambitious and astute, loyal and with plenty of acumen. You stood face to face and toe to toe demonstrating to your comrades and family members just what you represented. Sanctity and the sanity that comes with a humble piece of mind. A legacy constructed upon the foundations of character, morals, mettle and ideals of intellect and the ingenuity to see your journeys through. Never forgotten and well respected by humanity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
When tempers flare and fray, ferocity must be exercised to bring resolve home. Nothing can be absent nor missing while you are out on your duties patrolling for some peace and civility. Dade County had your heroism, Officer Cook, along with your sunny smile and friendliness out on those dangerous pavements pursuing justice and freedom for all mankind. No matter the time or venue, your dignity and desire were present with your integrity and character so crucial to combatting turmoil and torment. A salute for your conviction, perseverance and trails of tenacity which has at least to this day made lives matter and more serene for us. A warrior who was welcomed into God's loving embrace with His open arms of mercy and compassion just as you so adequately displayed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
Dismal and sad, the words used to spell out one's very own life being taken needlessly by violence and terror. Nothing that powerful and austere may run rampant among humanity. There are enough ailments already harming our world. You came along in 1973, Officer Cook and for a quarter of your life you were out policing and protecting the values and honor of Dade County residents. Nothing better than a happy young man full of honesty, integrity and vitality dignifying his determinations to be the best public servant out there honoring humility, striving for justice and efficiently overcoming peril to restore calmness amid the kayos that was transpiring that day. You will always be treasured as a soul of mankind whose goodwill and grace was blessed to be with us for a too short twenty-five years of fruitful destinies. Our Lord has now taken your compass and directed at an even more humane calling. Your soul watches over your family and those women and men trying to be brave and honorable while delivering tranquility and good fortune. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
Violence needs to be disarmed of its power to prevail over society. It cannot be allowed to run loose displayed its wanton evil. Your fights in Dade County, Officer Cook, provided a steadier tomorrow, one made greater if your humbleness and humility were honorably present. You gave your life so peace and harmony may reside among us. Humanity needed your stellar character and commitment to both excellence and pride. A uniform of wisdom, desire and the faithfulness of loyalty to your esteemed colleagues who have saluted and solemnly honored your heroic memory. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 2, 2018
When life is imperiled police are out in force making us more safe. All you can be is your best and uphold your honor, dignity and integrity central to your humble missions of goodwill. You kept your end of your affirmation, Officer Cook, to protect and vindicate all Dade County from unlawful violence. The best and most supreme hero whose legacy stands as a pillar of our society in morals and in humility. Its humane esteem and elegance conveyed the messages of tranquility and the virtues of your vigilant actions that afternoon hotter than ever when you gave your life so ours could keep marching on. Time does that and sadly as we remember you, Officer Cook and your gentle and gallant soul, at least, well can look to the skies and see the bluest of nights. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 1, 2018
Hope and pray for the best and through God's compassion, kindness and mercy surely goodness shall come. Your department and family wanted you to survive that brutal day of infamy and violence, Officer Cook. They really did. The Lord must have had other more special plans for your soul of valor, honor and the loyalty that only integrity and dignity can spread. Dade County was under your scopes of surveillance and civility, the makings of your morals and mettle, character and convictions. Those divine shelters have been well protected by your perseverance and persistent efforts, Officer Cook. Our enhancements and enrichment have now become our greatest resources for peace and harmony. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 1, 2018
Grim and sad, your untimely left us and especially your loving family devoid of your wonderfully smiling face, your presence and sense of humor I'm sure is greatly missed at all holiday functions and yet they know in the heavens above rests your supreme valor, noted wisdom, vision wrapped tightly around your unwavering civility and serene sanctity which you provided the Dade County area and its folks with. Plenty of everlasting heroic honesty, integrity and the ingenuity of dignity which for sure can bring more safe passages. Your humble journeys, Officer Cook, had all the right tenacity stapled to your character, desire and proficient decency. Forever honored and solemnly saluted for undying and unrelenting effort put on the line. Those streets had you, Officer Cook and have been a little bit less safer. Take care and watch over us and those who wear their uniforms and badges of boldness and bravery in an unassuming manner. Help shield them from harm. Only Our Lord can plan and your spirit is assisting in this difficult process. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 1, 2018
Bustling and hustling, a humble man's daily effort. To stabilize any venue one must be diligent and committed to using those tools at their disposal. You never shied away from violence, Officer Cook, you went right for its perpetrator and accomplished more just by being here in Dade County on your daily rounds. Your dignity, integrity and honesty were indeed humble and efficient in this war over an adversary so demonstrative. You finished your duties and then Our Maker took your character and your soul back to His eternal home to help safeguard those no won protection detail. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 1, 2018
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Shape up or ship out. Now is the time to check in and come ready for the fight of a lifetime. Dade County has seen everything and always you acquitted yourself, Officer Cook, with the juices of zest, zeal and vigor flowing in your body. It surely made evil rise and take heart. What a courageously gallant heart you had, Officer Cook, channeling all your resources of honesty, goodwill into your integrity and dignity. Always relevant. Always saluted and revered, respected and cherished for your unselfish heroic actions that preserved peace, saved lives of your comrades and those civilians you were responsible for watching over. May God watch over your soul of peace and your spirit of humility, the treatment for some of humanity's woes. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 1, 2018
The beast lies in wait to terrorize a community where serenity and safety look to pitch their tents of happiness and prosperity. Dade County was your expertise, Officer Cook and your repertoire of resolve and resiliency certainly helped to compliment you rhumble honor, esteemed bravery and the bounties of boldness, dignity and integrity. It had to be a concentrated effort you always put forth with outstanding character to achieve at least some breakthrough in peace and unity for humanity's own sake. A hero and warrior whose ideals and vision championed our humility and sanctity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Division is still a part of very world. Those who labor, sweat and toil in tenacity, tyranny one day will perish and goodwill will replace unrest and tensions that exist sadly. Keep checking in, Officer Cook and those now serving on their toes with their compasses pointed in the right direction.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
October 1, 2018
Pestilence can ruin the delicate balance of society's precision and pristine ways of happiness. A refined and resourceful man, your exploits and pursuits of safety and unity on behalf of Dade County made you a legend to be humbly honored, Officer Cook. Your six years of loyal and dedicated service made us feel more at home. We just wish your appearance was still with us though we know your spirit never left us or your family and peers. Violence takes those brave and calibrated souls of dignity and integrity and then they go straight to heaven where they await their humane and humble accolades from Our Chief Savior. Only your character and transparency helped to prevent a more terrible scene than what was already transpiring. Unity and understanding can only take their genesis if bravery and boldness carry themselves with distinction and deserving motivation. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The goodness of a hero's heart reveals a soul of serenity as its gently touches our own very hearts. Still hard to fathom thirty-nine years since you left your family, colleagues and close personal friends. Decency and intuition let you achieve more than anyone could ever imagine, Officer Cook.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 30, 2018
On every public servant's radar is their cunning cleverness and yet courtesy and other professional traits must present themselves when fighting crime. Dade County was the location were your virtues were severely tested day in and day out. When a living son,brother, husband and family member leaves their dignity, integrity and honor on the streets in an attempt to steer terror away from our midst we must be humble. It was the same character, hope and goodwill that was in your blood, Officer Cook. Mr. Pearsall stole your life and soul from those who cared and admired you. Never will humanity be as safe and secure, yet those who take the baton must share in the onus of accomplishing some mighty tall tasks. Your assignments made for more progress and your fruitful journeys will always be blessed and blessed for heroism and the art of caring and wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A classic man with a gregarious heart and soul now revolving forevermore around our world.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 30, 2018
Police work is not a play nor is it theater. it's all business that can have a lingering and yet chilling affect over those who demand and want harmony and a little civility. Your honesty and integrity sheltered us in Dade County with a pleasant amount of peace and safety though the cost was your young life, Officer Cook. We pause and remember your drive, dignity and the desire through good morals to create some moments when violence is lessened a bit. Character, commitment and conviction take vision, clarity and wisdom down those righteous wings of humanity where humility and humbleness were set upon your wonderful soul and a uniform worn proudly and efficiently. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 30, 2018
Vegetables are good for you. A hearty dose of honesty, integrity and humility will in all likelihood take a person's missions father down those roads of perseverance than ever before. Your life and career had the necessary amounts of acumen, awareness and astuteness which humbly develop vision and wisdom into better utilities that must be put into action to defeat terror. Your pursuits in Dade County, Officer Cook, made a dent in this seemingly never concluding war over wickedness. But, your class and character steered your car in the right direction everyday you worked. Your family, friends and professional comrades are exceedingly grateful for your heroic actions that saved them and the people from an evil and awful man. You were a gallant gentleman, Officer Cook, full of personality and charm and the admiration of all toward you will be reverently etched upon our minds and in our hearts. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 30, 2018
Doom can derail the best plans of mankind. To deter these notions of evil we in Dade County needed you and your undying resolve, resourcefulness and unending resiliency, Officer Cook. Sometimes even honorable and dignified women and men cannot cure all the problems that plague society, all they can do is surely act responsibly, hold their integrity, decency and desire close to their vests. It's their vigilance and virtue which can make all the difference. Our values and aspirations can be traced to your feverish tenacity and the fire which burned in your stomach as you were looking for some tranquility and equality among humanity. Keep your eternal humility centered up above where it can assist those who have taken over your watch, Officer Cook. If they possess half of what you bravely had at least we have the chance to capture violence before it strikes again. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 30, 2018
Sound advice must evolve from a sound body and mind. You can begin to battle evil without the essentials of effort and honesty. Your devotion and dignity, Officer Cook, made us here in Dade County more secure and at peaceful bliss. Thank God your integrity and ingenuity, Officer Cook, was of the highest morals and fabrics of character as it left us with good feelings. It is your unwavering and unselfish humility that helped to lead other respected souls of serenity through violence and unbalanced terror. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Cornerstones are those edifices that should last forever the same as your heroic ally humble legacy, Officer Cook. Never forgotten and always saluted for resolve and unquestionable understanding in the performance of all your professional tasks.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 30, 2018
Pretenders cannot even begin to fathom nor contend with stark reality which is crime, unrest and the nastiness by which violence roars and sinks its teeth into our leisure pursuits of life's peace and happiness. Coping and hoping may do as much as wishful thinking. Surely, you accomplished more than that, Officer Cook, by your loving presence and positively charming personality and its stellar character. If you heaven forbid had no morals, honesty or integrity we would probably be lost. I's dare say that ship would sink. But, you were really honorable and fiercely loyal to your battling comrades. Thank God there's hope. Your heroic actions and life, Officer Cook, stood for courage and calmness during their tense times when turmoil and violence look to obstruct and shale things loose. Kind of like getting hit on the head with a coconut. You'll be humbly and very much saluted for your sage advice, mettle and the complete embodiment of morals. No complacency. No inconsistency. Just plain old hard and grind it out work to spark the flames of justice and its fairness to humanity. mankind is deeply indebted to you and your family, Officer Cook and to Our Master who gave you to this society for an all too short twenty-five years of missions and journeys fulfilled. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Remorse at least helps to uncover those spreads of transgression.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 29, 2018
I meant to say, Officer Cook, that we who reside in Dade County can be grateful that you graced our landscape with your energy and endeavors. Peace and unity can be most difficult to come by at times. Yet, it was your unassuming honesty, dignity and valor which blessed us and for having the heroic integrity in your primary commitments may your soul of resolve and fruition be blessed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character and the surges of decency remain with you forevermore in God's most beautiful of bounties.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 29, 2018
Snug as a bug at night, we who reside and live in and around around graciously and gratefully thank the men and women all heroes and heroines who have delivered the quiet and echoing sounds of peace. Your wisdom,vision and dignity, Officer Cook, provided this prosperity and unity amid kayos and peril. You gave your word of boldness, your bond of true brotherhood to shelter us and your honor never wavered. Quite simply, humanity's version of sanctity and the courage that civility implants in the souls and hearts of its humbly distinguished force to be reckoned with. Never more character, desire and the proven essentials of effort, energy and sheer efficiency while being under fire during violent times. A brave and well admired and cherished hero. Your legacy, Officer Cook, is for all future generations to take notice of and to live by the codes of courage and principles. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
September 29, 2018
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