Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Police Officer William Coleman Cook

Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida

End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979

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Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook

To orchestrate, to permeate, to perpetuate mankind by noble purposes says all that is to know of you, Officer Cook, a real hero of Dade County who has been remembered by his family, peers and friends for living by sacred passions. Your missions provided the relief the citizens had been searching for and our security has been that relationship between you my neighbor, friend and hero and those of whom you undertook a sacred oath. A man with class, desire and character who will not be overlooked nor forgotten for possessing mettle, principles and virtue that was accountable, responsible and most humanely dependable. Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 29, 2022

The smell of fear never came about during your life and watch over Dade County, Officer Cook. Heroism and honor were your partners to be surely cherished as you brought good nature and charm to this world and to your beloved family. Dignity and integrity that rang the bells of valor and virtue as loudly as did your outstanding performance to serve the public and to preserve the quality of life, a heart and soul functioning together as well oiled machines. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 29, 2022

All your life, Officer Cook, from the moment of your birth until you sacrificed your life to make the residents of Dade County securer your honor, integrity and dignity were the bridges and foundations that was steady as a plane flying high. You never lost sight nor track of your resources of humility, character and an unwavering heart and soul searching for the rightful balance of stability and tranquility. Now as a heroic angel may Our Lord keep watch over your spirit as it walks its humble beat above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 29, 2022

One good man giving his all and his heroic life to make Dade County safer. A flickering light offers a ray of hope, goodwill and your everlasting faithfulness, Officer Cook. A rock solid public servant whose dignity, integrity and humble honesty matched wits with those committing evil. You will be saluted and remembered for a career and life exemplified by virtue, versatility and a wise heart and soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character never cloudy, commitments all true and trustworthy, convictions all going down those trails of tenacity and roads of resolve and resourcefulness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 29, 2022

You arbitrate and then you work around dilemmas, issues and problems hoping to figure out solutions. Dade County was your beloved haven where your heroic honor and dignity rested in all your trails of truth and trust with a caring heart and unwavering soul. Officer Cook, you'll forever be paid homage and saluted nobly. Character, sincerity are still better than being flattered all the time. You serve the public where expectation and can sometimes pass demands. But, you were valiant and proud a crusade of trust and tireless truth expanding the plains of perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 29, 2022

Dignity, integrity and honor are God's heavenly agents who assist His brave flock of ferocity throughout their lives. Yours, Officer Cook, was meant to serve and to protect all Dade County and your character always performed at at a stellar level. Virtue true and through, trust so faithful and deliberate. An authentic gentleman gifted, skilled and surely with a caring soul and heart of heroism. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 28, 2022

You arbitrate and then you work around dilemmas, issues and problems hoping to figure out solutions. Dade County was your beloved haven where your heroic honor and dignity rested in all your trails of truth and trust with a caring heart and unwavering soul. Officer Cook, you'll forever be paid homage and saluted nobly. Character, sincerity are still better than being flattered all the time. You serve the public where expectation and can sometimes pass demands. But, you were valiant and proud a crusade of trust and tireless truth expanding the plains of perseverance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 27, 2022

Dignity, integrity and honesty are the very symbols of character, commitment and courage, Officer Cook, they were used wisely and with the vision and versatility demanded in one genuinely loyal and efficient public servant. Dade County was the place where heart, soul and substance banded as one to bring the scopes of serenity, safety and security closer to humanity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 27, 2022

Charisma, charm and a smile, yet you were all ears, eyes, heart and soul when Dade County needed defending, Officer Cook, loyal, honest, heroic and a most proud and passionate young man. Integrity, vision, virtue and wisdom all doing their eternal roles now and forevermore in heaven. Your personality fit the image of a pristine uniform and a humane badge of bravery, boldness and onus that delivered upon your oath of dedication to us tranquility and liberty for mankind which misses you as much as your loved ones do. It was such a travesty of justice that your life ended so sadly yet your legacy carries the weights of gold and concern as your family manages to march onward never forgetting your battles and sincere soul and spirit. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 27, 2022

To embellish is to make more succinct. Your effort, Officer Cook, not only was heroic, it was most honorable and visible as you patrolled the streets of Dade County with a noted and a seasoned passion. All character, all heart and soul putting out flames of evil that were sometimes quite fierce. For being stoic and stellar may God shield your integrity, respectful dignity and also keep your spirit aglow as you walk your heavenly beat. Our very serenity and stability came about through unassuming and unwavering courage and virtue so unique and versatile. The value of a gentleman with refined morals, scruples and ethics is always a needed tool in fighting crime. You'll be saluted forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 27, 2022

Where relevance meets up with resolve, resiliency and resourcefulness then you know you have accomplished something pretty major. Serving the public trust and welfare is not a matter of routine or fact item. Your ideals, integrity, dignity and humanely humble honor, Officer Cook, took care of matters of safety on behalf of Dade County's citizens. Your family has forever admired, loved and adored you their" Uncle Bo." Your blessed heart, soul and legacy shall always be an integral part of their waking lives as they carry out the lessons and messages you conveyed to the public. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 27, 2022

You dedicate your life and career to conservation, protection and the integrity of life so essential. Dade County was where your life and career was supposed to continue except for one violent man ending your dreams and life, Officer Cook. You are forever an inspiration heroically to your family, comrades and a host of friends. Honesty, dignity and character never departed from your side of serious commitment and truthfully trusted convictions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Decisions, devotions and virtue all led your paths and trails of sincere and heartwarming justice.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 27, 2022

Fly safe. Travel by train safely. Come and go in peace. God took your sweet soul of humility, honor and heroism back to His castles of dignity, integrity and character. They never departed from true trust and humane allegiance given to Dade County folks, Officer Cook. The men and women you partnered with have all remembered your exemplary exploits doing battle to provide safe havens for all society. Mankind and humanity have been devoid of a devoted man of faith, your versatility never shaken, your virtue as straight as an arrow with loyalty and esteem always at a most righteous plateau. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 26, 2022

Two young men who were one and two years older than you, Officer Cook, are buried near you. They were 17 when they passed. Yet their families as does your loving family carry with pride, honorand heart your heroic legacy forward as they live their lives and pursue their humbly chosen passions and endeavors. Gina, your niece I believe is a paralegal for a law firm doing here role for over twenty years now. The pain, agony and grief were all consuming whenever a man of legitimate dignity, character and integrity has his life snuffed out while defending our very freedoms right here in Dade County. They saluted you and offered words of condolence for a bright young man girded in strength and with a caring soul and heart. Your spirit, Officer Cook, is truth and trust wrapped in Our Creator's palms for eternal safekeeping. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. I'm glad to have received your mother, Julia's warm and humble letter I have cherished and to have met Gina and her brother Justin who delivered his grandmother the letter I wrote to her. You were her beloved son, brother and husband to Karen. Always a hero! Always respect and forever humble!

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 26, 2022

Forty plus years is a long time without you and your family members seeing one another. A lot has changed not only in Dade County's landscape, Karen your beloved widow remarried around thirteen years ago and in March of 2019 your beloved mother, Mrs. Julia Cook, passed at the humble age of one -hundred and three. Surely, Officer Cook, you would have been very sad to have had to bury your mom with your older sister, Nancy. They had to lay you to rest before a proper goodbye. An honorable young man gracing mother nature with his yearning and thriving. Those rudders of resolve, integrity and dignity were finely tuned and nothing was amiss except for an evil man taking your life robbing your family of seeing a happy man with an earthly soul and a humane and war heart of care, concern and consideration. Manners, politeness and neatness all lived as a hero by the good book and taught by your two beloved and dedicated parents may they rest in peace along with you my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 26, 2022

The water flows and so did your passion, courage and unassuming dignity, Officer Cook. Morally fit and a gentleman who upheld his sacred oath to protect and to serve his all for Dade County. Devotion and integrity are locked in to the heart of honesty and yours was amplified to the maximum. Forevermore will you be solemnly and humbly remembered as your family, department's and friends hero. Humbleness poured from your veins of wisdom, vision and your maturity beyond your twenty-five years. God placed you on this earth for a reason, a cause, that was to give mankind some semblance of serenity, hope and goodwill to carry their journeys forward though your life should have been allowed to continue. Our Lord needed your virtual and sweet soul and spirit back in His eternal home to walk your heavenly beat. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 26, 2022

Police are not there to pamper, they are there to protect, preserve and to precisely know where they must go to eliminate evil and its associated wickedness. No one had to drag you along, Officer Cook as if you were walking on eggshells. You understood and took your reverent roles and responsibilities to heart, a most humbly heroic one and a soul of honor, humility and integrity that dignified its presence serving Dade County. A man blessed with fortitude, acumen and the virtue that packed its punches of proficiency and staunch versatility. Character that came through in the clutch aiding your comrades nearly killed that day and the residents whose lives were in your humane hands of esteem and loyalty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Tireless, unselfish and unwavering is better fit to meet the demands, expectations and challenges at hand than one who lacks respect, faithfulness and any aptitude of resourcefulness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 26, 2022

Place two feet on the pavement and begin to walk the hallowed grounds of where more than a sensation of stability should occur. You had the keen faculties, Officer Cook, to distribute our dignity, our very humble integrity and honesty so loyally cherished. No one will overlook a gentleman, a young man with the traits and characteristics who made a humble name for himself. Yet there was no boasting only hard work accentuating your true trails of justice. Everything that permeates today throughout our world came about through your due diligence and treasured vigilance. Virtue must never be lessened if problems are to be decreased giving hope, faithfulness and goodwill the solemn opportunity to turn around our very venue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 25, 2022

Circumstances the directions and pathways of our lives and golden pursuits. You had a passion and followed your dreams and desires to where dedication, devotion and determination would be most appreciated. The folks of your community, Officer Cook, Dade County won't forget your acumen and visibility all highly admired just as your unselfish humility and heart. Where ingenuity and intuition roamed that's precisely where dignity and integrity hunkered down for the battle of their lives. You paid the ultimate sacrifice for your family, friends and department, for this you can be sure it's words of wisdom, vision and maturity mattered in your fights for our very peace of mind and unity for all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 25, 2022

Right click, left click so long as honesty, integrity and dignity all check the boxes of bravery, boldness and respectful character, stellar commitments to everything that excellence and pride entail. The truth and trust of the citizens you watched over, Officer Cook, was heroism accomplished and your missions on behalf of Dade County were deemed as complete as Our Lord needed your tireless, spirit and effort in His kingdom of warmth and compassion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 25, 2022

Revered in goodwill, honest hope, goodwill that never divorced your unassuming dignity, character and integrity, a life lived with humbleness all channeled into your dreams of becoming a really top flight public servant. Dade County has not forgotten your ventures of nobility as they filled the columns of ferocity and courage. God has your soul and heart helping to police his streets where perfection will never be trampled upon nor hurt forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 25, 2022

Terror is like a toppling tree, something that can have devastating consequences. You protected the folks of Dade County, Officer Cook, utilizing honor, good judgment and all the integrity was humbly implanted within your heart and soul. A spirit of dignity that continues making its heavenly revolutions around humanity. Your family is most proud of you yet misses your smile and grace every second. A classy man of character who was bestowed with the humane gifts and talents spelled out in virtue, responsibility and in sanctity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 25, 2022

A smile that broadened our very horizons, while your humbleness bounced from place to place securing the streets where wickedness lurked. Officer Cook, your family, colleagues and the entire world were abundantly blessed by your honorable presence. And no doubt if you alive and well today living a peaceful retirement with Karen. Integrity and respect coupled with heroic dignity that never dodged from violence always fondly and solemnly etched within the hearts of your family and peers from the past. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 24, 2022

Might only makes right when honor, dignity and integrity display their virtual fortitude. Your attitude, tenacity and heart were the characters of charm and esteem, Officer Cook, as they made Dade County safer and more serene. The world has faced many issues, adversity only adds fuel to the fires of evil and your soul and spirit made that distinct impression that humanity has forever cherished. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A chipper person is more likely to prosper than one who is not as sharp and astute.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 24, 2022

You set a table in the sight of my enemies and surely my cup overflows. Your chalice of charisma, concern and courage, Officer Cook, overflowed and never was more noticeable. Making your way around Dade County was your passion, your chosen profession and danger never should stop a man of God, virtue and honesty. Dignity, integrity and character ran countless laps around those paths of your unassuming tenacity and accountability. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A great young man who engaged, enriched and uplifted our community in peace and stability that those colleagues now serving are charged with overseeing.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 24, 2022

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