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

Class and vision drove your faithful paths of honesty, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook. Such a lovely human being who was destined to rise within the ranks I'll assume if Our Creator had granted you more life. But, nonetheless, your destinies and journeys on behalf of Dade County and their fine people were handled with stoic achievement, stellar virtue and sterling commitment to excel in whatever aspirations and dreams you had to become a superb role model for others wanting to join the ranks. A profession that humbly rewards as God blesses your shining soul of heroic courage. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 25, 2021

Wickedness needs to be flattened like a pancake. The pressure must be kept up on people sadly inclined to commit evil. Dade County like any other location has its highs and lows, its moments of relief and times of tension and duress. Badge #1664, yours, Officer Cook, provided the remedy for circumstances that needed clarity and change. A gentleman whose life of humility, civility and sanctity all dignified your careful thought process. Thinking and reacting, listening and absorbing information. Tough for some, a trifle less difficult for others. Valor, virtue and versatility now visiting heaven's gates daily as an angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 25, 2021

One bad or rogue employee can foul up the most sophisticated of measures. Safety and harmony for all citizens is what our constitution states we are entitled to. Dade County had a very sweet yet serious minded servant in you, Officer Cook, serving with every ounce of mettle and honored morals. Never a doubt dignity, integrity and character were always present to take charge of a scene where its situations demanded expert care and concern. Your heroic heart and soul handled those faithfully uplifting onuses with a sharp eye and a truth wisdom,vision and maturity to be fondly saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 25, 2021

We are in a serious bind, Officer Cook, this Covid-!9 that we thought was subsiding seems to be running rampant once more. Your heart, soul and heroic spirit can look down and keep tabs on your family, peers of truth and trust and guided their humility through their daily lives and paths of virtue. The very humane honor, dignity and integrity that graced your relatively short life. Evil was what took you from your professional career of service to Dade County and its people. Outstanding character and respect for humanity have been the examples for which Our Savior has blessed and rewarded your utmost endeavors to further enhance the values and ideals of life. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 25, 2021

The bars of excellence and humility were raised with the tools of tranquility and their stability. Your abilities, Officer Cook, enabled Dade County folks to live more peaceful and prouder lives. Our very existence linked to the valor of your honorable sacrifice, dignified and quite serene. Such integrity, reverence and character now helps to patrol those very gates where gallantry and hope reside for eternity. Humanity and your family all miss their special bundle of love and esteem until they meet up with you again may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

A hero with a framework of tenacity and savvy always applying himself to the tasks, assignments and duties at hand. For twenty-five years of life, six spent trolling the Dade County areas for peace, Officer Cook, may the Almighty God bless and protect your soul, heart and spirit. They were always in the proper place to lend credence to what we mean as loyal and surely esteemed. Badge#1664 was all about facts and honesty, never seeking more than the Lord placed by your stools of sanctity, dignity and integrity. Those heated wars took your pursuits of excellence and endeavor to a newer sphere and now for heroic sacrifice, may your angelic wings fitted for everlasting perfection assist you in flying higher each second. Eternity is the last location where your loved ones can look up and see the lights aglow from your wonderful soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

Hunches are all well and good and their intentions are sincere. But, if you want to make hay better have a blast of boldness and bravery lifting your humility and honor to a higher level where dignity and integrity can incorporate themselves more into those grand battles. Violence disturbs and perturbs all at the same time. Your perseverance and preservation of all Dade County, Officer Cook, made it way around a community that admires and salutes your heroism. From humility to the top chambers of your sweet and virtuous heart and soul. A gentleman not to be overlooked nor of course forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

With a hammerlock over us adversity's arms and legs must be severed to keep its advances from truly harming and ruining the harmony and unity mankind begs for. No one had to beg you, Officer Cook, you were humble yet proud to perform your sacred tasks on behalf of Dade County. The results were not what your family nor peers expected and that was for you to be escorted back to the gates of perfection as an angel whose decency, dependability, honesty and integrity were the cores of your unrelenting courage. Integrity, ingenuity and intervention all tried to stop a wayward and violent man from doing more harm that day. You saved your comrades and the citizens and will be saluted for heroic effort and all unselfish heart and soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

You can make replicates and duplicates of your smiling face, Officer Cook, taken roughly fifty years ago behind Old Glory. Unfortunately, your family cannot bring you back from heaven. It's that sacred and heroic spot where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero for being so honest, heart warming and completely dignified and in control of your faculties, ferocity and faithfulness. Dade County has surely admired your attributes and all humane and humble contributions made and created to better society, uplifting and engaging all who you met and greeted with a friendly hello so sadly missed today and forever.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

A life is to be blessed, revered and treasured for its sounds of pleasantness. Such piercing perseverance, a preponderance of proficient honesty, dignity and integrity which made your trails of truth and trust, Officer Cook, stand for class and outstanding achievement. You will be recognized for implementing precise virtue, uplifting civilization, enriching those whom you served with humility and heart. God has your tender and gentle soul of heroism safeguarded where no more hurt nor danger will come its direction. But, heart wrenching for your family, close circle of acquaintances and your department who mourned your senseless loss a pain and agony still being felt. The world was left with your legacy to pick them up by their britches. To carry on your journeys, missions of hope and goodwill toward society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

The sun shines this morning this moment but later on who knows God's meteorological plans? That very day of May 16, 1979 the sun was shining when you, Officer Cook, gave your life for Dade County to reside in liberty and in tranquility. One odd yet boldly evil man took your life of honor,integrity and dignity away from you,your family and close comrades and nearly killed your fellow officers. Heroism as I've said is not just placed on a silver platter and gift wrapped. It's learned, shared,practiced and eventually is the makings of a solid foundation, a meaningful and reverent home environment of which the Cook Household was forever devout, honest and faithful. I still picture the cross swaying in the breeze in front of your parents' home. Always so loyal, dedicated and a disciple of scruples and ethical conduct. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

Callousness and heinousness should just crash to the bottom of the earth never to be seen or heard form again. This statement won't occur because somehow evil just keeps repeating its permeation around a society built and established to be free of misery, pain and hurt. Torment, terror and turmoil torture the innocent and a young man, a valiant gentleman with a good name and a most heroically blessed constitution went after such unending violence. You changed the landscape of Dade County, Officer Cook, to be forever saluted. Not just honesty, humbleness and living a life of humane contentment with your most beloved Karen, it was and always will be about sincerity,heart and a dignified integrity in your every movement that is to be gratefully cherished. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

Better to demonstrate acumen, awareness and being astute rather than gall and audacity. Being savvy yet accomplished will accomplish more in the finality than plain old lack of character, morals and respect. For the good of mankind, Officer Cook, Dade County was showed more than a prospect of promise, they were diligently served by yourself a man with a sterling, stoic and stellar good name now heroically forever blessed by Our Lord as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of both dignity and integrity which your heart certainly contained.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

Some stains are easier to remove than others. But the smear of senseless evil that spot is so difficult to undo. The streets of Dade County were well served, protected and preserved by your undying esteem and faithful loyalty, Officer Cook. Every call, every shift, every assignment completed with honesty, virtue validating your heart, soul and character of reverence and the due diligence the residents come to expect. Pride and class all throughout your true and trusted life of nobility which has kept on paying dividends. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

A most beloved public servant with his humble reputation on the line giving every ounce of honesty, integrity and dignity to make Dade County and its citizens safe forevermore. Your unwavering resourcefulness, Officer Cook, so heroic and so virtuous has been remembered for everything decent in the name of character, respect and a certain fighting resolve to be saluted for its humility and responsibility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 24, 2021

Gallantry cannot ever be gashed nor gored. Honesty, integrity and dignity cannot ever be tarnished nor disrespected. So much faith, hope and unselfishly unwavering goodwill distributed back into the very streets of Dade County where you gave your life, heart and soul over forty-two years ago, Officer Cook. One hero with a fireplace of ferocity and the terraces of both truth and trust forevermore. Your family has missed you tremendously and knows one day you'll be reunited with them. For now and for eternity an angel soaring higher and higher in Our Maker's perfect abode. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

The trains to ferocity, tenacity and truth followed the blessed instincts of your trust, reliability and versatility, Officer Cook, down those heroic paths in Dade County where its citizens received a wealth of hope and steadfast goodwill. Information cannot hurt the reputation of dignity, reverent character and a man whose commitments were honorable and filled with baskets of boldness and integrity. The strength of your heart and soul was tireless, energetic and surely thoughtful. Your life and career will forever be etched and blessed within your family's dreams, aspirations and trails of truth, peace and prosperity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

Public servants cannot steer clear of harm and violence as they must plunge feet first, head first and look terror, torment and turmoil in their very eyes of tyranny. Forever does our world and your beloved family, Officer Cook, solemnly, fondly and heroically remembers your memories, life and career of courage where callousness belongs off the streets and you my neighbor, friend and hero protected Dade County with a mighty heart and a solid constitution. Ingenuity, intuition and intelligence combining with the settings of vision, maturity and wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

The wonders of society amaze us all. The greatness of God's glory filling hearts and souls while those devoted, faithful and dedicated endeavor to foil evil. You did just that, Officer Cook and way beyond the roofs of resolve and venues of versatility and virtue. Dade County's hope and goodwill was given to us by your vested interest in doing right by the people and your peers. Honesty, integrity and dignity so clear and defined. The trials and tribulations were all handled by a man of his word,truth and trust. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

Dubious does not apply to heroes. Careful, concerned and classy all surely does wonders when wickedness displays its nastiness. It sadly did that day, Officer Cook and your mettle, morals and values proved to be the difference in life being saved while you gave yours for your colleagues. They won't forget honor, dignity, humility and your heart and soul refined with integrity and character. All the salutes, blessings and rewards coming your way and your spirit will be safeguarded among the pious forever. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

What an honest, heroic and humble trail you paved for other valiant women and men, Officer Cook, so freshly beautiful and pristine. Because of your heroism, dignity and integrity, it's found in wisdom, vision and your unwavering virtue all the reasons as to why your so adored, admired, revered and cherished by your family, peers and so so many friends throughout our land and for giving Dade County its tranquility and sacred stability to move about in freedom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

God's glorious havens are filled with flocks of angels, honest, heroic, dignified and with a sincere integrity that beat within their hearts and souls. Dade County was served by an esteemed and loyal gentleman in you, Officer Cook. They and your family shall never forget the young man unwavering, resolute and tireless in all your pursuits of peace and stability. Such outstanding and enriching character, commitment to excellence and a yearning to everything in trust and truth in your convictions of persistence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 23, 2021

The doors are ajar to greet enhancement, engagement and enrichment. No such thing by you, Officer Cook, as you were a friend to all who called upon you for help. Never a bad word, an untruth only trust and loyalty flowing from your veins of vigilance.Your spirit, heart and soul will certainly be rewarded and blessed by Our Creator whose compassion and mercy showers the Earth with His modesty. You are an angel of bravery and virtue my neighbor, friend and hero who lead other men and women here in Dade County through the perilous and tenuous moments never to be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 22, 2021

One, two, three, four, honor, dignity and integrity humbly touching society's hearts, souls and spirits. Your spirit and virtue, Officer Cook, rest in peace as with your humility and sacred missions in God's graceful abode where perfection and no more harm will follow you for eternity. You should have been allowed to live and because of one man's violent temper your family is missing their most cherished and adored "Uncle Bo." But, no one forgets and no one shall be held prisoner anymore. You respected, revered and were fearless in all your abilities. So much to be thankful for and you'll remain greatly admired my neighbor, friend and hero. Versatility and vigor partnered with you and continue to watch over your family as they carry your heroic legacy in their thoughts and hearts.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 22, 2021

You model yourself to be a good citizen after all you protect the integrity, dignity and honor of people who took an oath to serve. Your representation, goodwill and resourcefulness, Officer Cook, have served a primary role as motivation for those now securing your posts where you watched over an entire region. When a gentleman of character, conviction and commitments to excellence inspires his colleagues and is able to capably take on leadership onuses, we must salute him and pay solemn homage to his life, career and sacred memories of all journeys made on behalf of blessing and enrichment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 22, 2021

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