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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

A trip down memory lane must include a life and a career formulated within the virtues of wisdom, vision and maturity. It was your mainstay, Officer Cook and must forever be duly and fondly noted, inscribed and etched within the hearts and souls of your beloved family, humble comrades of the very same bravery, integrity and honor's dignity that you poured your efforts into, Dade County shall remain your home even where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero forevermore engraved in the rich history of your department. Intuitive and a man with plenty of backbone composed that supported your every movementof mettle and the fabrics of efficiency and respect from all society. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Badge#1664 is yours, Officer Cook and heaven has a priceless angel of love and adornment.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 30, 2021

The heart of a hero, the soul of a pious man, a gentleman following his spirits passions to protect, preserve and to pacify those whose tempers are scary. With a calming voice of reason and a demeanor of hope, devotion and goodwill, Officer Cook, were you able to adjust your compass accordingly. Dade County was the location of your accountabilty, versatility and onus toward humanity. A humbly honored being is the very first place to begin and from there integrity, reverence and dignity faced calamity and adversity as only a refined hero must. Your peers of esteem have never ever stopped cherishing your life, career and the memories of your bonified tenacity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Safe passages all built and constructed within the bounds of boldness and your documented and accentuated acumen and awareness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 30, 2021

Gracious and gallant, a man with a plan and preparation for what was forthcoming. Evil invades our privacy and that can never be tolerated. Dade County was the venue, Officer Cook, where your vehicles of resolve, resiliency and endeavor patrolled the streets and roads looking for a broad sector of serenity, safety and secure trails for mankind to follow in. You left a most heroic legacy stamped withthe scruples of honesty, ingenuity and the integrity that dignified a lifethat enriched, enhanced and uplifted society from the bottom upward. Your noble heart, soul and never relenting convictions and commitments to all that is right, all that is excellence in performing your professional duties. Trust and truth can tame the tiger that is terror, torment and turmoil. Your career and life of progress emphasized that point. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 30, 2021

Police hunt down heinousness while capturing callous individuals who jeopardize civilization. Your humble, honest and heroic earthly pursuits here in Dade County, Officer Cook, all led to our very peace and stability from within. It's always going to be terrible, tragic and appalling that violence took you from your family and colleagues. But, your truthful, resourceful and most faithfully diligent dignity, integrity and responsible character carried out all your missions with an unselfish, unwavering andmost tireless heart, soul and spirit to be solemnly, nobly and sacredly saluted for virtue, valor and moral vitality. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 30, 2021

A crazy man who attacked your integrity, authority and dignity ruining and shattering your life and your family's lives forevermore. They carry on your legacy, honor and humanely humble soul and heart for what they accomplished on behalf of Dade County, Officer Cook. A man of trust, ingenuity always stoking the flames of your unselfish and tireless passion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Bridges cemented by courage and the crusade of a wise heart and resourceful soul with a spirit of virtue validating yourpatrols.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 29, 2021

Those who prey on mankind are the one's whose inclinations are certainly not filled with integrity, honesty and dignity. You were a dedicated warrior and superbly composed man, Officer Cook, Your superiors never had to worry and neither did Dade County folks. You were driven by the fibers and fabrics of mettle, morals and discipline that was top notch and is to be commended andsolemnly saluted. Pride is the interjection of passion and persistence and yours served and is watched over every second by Our Lord. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 29, 2021

Appreciate what you have today for tomorrow is not a given. Police depend upon their tools and resources of tenacity, ferocity and of course by being true and faithful to their venues of virtue and valor. Yours, Officer Cook, was Dade County where the lights of your soul, heart and spirit stay forever aglow. An angel whose dignity, integrity and honor represented humanity's intuitions never to be forsaken. Your uplifting and enriching character,commitments to principles and ethics, their convictions will always be trusted and cherished greatly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The fountain of youth still overflows with passion and its veins of vigor, vitality, their virtue stands up front and center.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 29, 2021

The sands of time shift each moment and with it comes a new day dawning. Dade County wakes up today to a little bit less safety because of your absense, Officer Cook, a hero of humanity never overlooked and never forgotten for courage and conviction right fromthe drawers of your heart and soul. Esteem to be treasured and loyalty to be boldly etched within your family andcomrades' hearts and minds. It takes a man of ingenuity and intuition to go out and battle everything callous and heinous, you did that and your badge and uniform of sanctity won't be shelved. You laid your life and career down setting newer foundations and their cornerstones for a securer future one with your name and memories to be shared and the lessons all learned day and night forever. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 29, 2021

Such a sound and proficienct gentleman protecting us and all of Dade County, a community that has respected and revered your wisdom, vision and compassion toward society. Officer Cook, you never took anything for granted and for performing with onus and resiliency may God bless and reward your honesty, dignity and integrity that fought long and hard for our sense of harmony and stability. Heroism to be forevermore saluted and paid homage for valaor, vigilance and humanely loyal virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 29, 2021

The assortment of acumen, being astute and being aware surely enhanced your patrols of Dade County, Officer Cook. A hero who has been welcomed into the angelic circle of humility, honor and dignified integrity now and forever in heaven. You remain sorely missed and always greatly beloved by your family, comrades of the past and a whole host of friends whose heart and souls were just as yours were truthful, faithfully trustworthy andof staunch character and desirable commitments to excellence,pride and sacred missions undertaken with mankind's security and safe journeys following close behind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 29, 2021

Heroism walks down the sacred paths of wisdom, maturity and vision as do all angels of esteem and enhancement solemnly must. Sacred and humble nothing would suggest otherwise, Officer Cook, that you were one truly passionate and duly honorable servant whose Godly exploits were purposeful and for the causes of Dade County's liberties. If dignity, integrity and character are linked together one's earthly pursuits of justice become more vivid and yours my neighbor, friend and hero were virtuous and surely versatile. Rest in peace. Your special and sweet spirit lights up the nightime skies above.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

A crossroads of faith and devotion shaddowed you, Officer Cook, throughout a life of diligence and due vigilance watching over us living in Dade County. A hero of truth and a spirit of conviction advancing the know how of commitment to everything excellent and prideful. Sadly, there will not be another Officer Cook, patrolling our streets and neighborhood, you were the best, the prime example of perseverance and precise ingenuity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend andhero. Respect and resourcefulness followed your lofty andloyal trails of justice being perpetuated properly.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

Evil can be a sticky wicket at times. You were consummate yet as we all understand had a difficult task ahead of you, Officer Cook, serving and protecting life and property here in Dade County. The milemarkers of your morals, mettle and ethically upstanding professional conduct. Always gentle and firm, fair and unbiased. When evil usurped the goodwill of angels of peace and honesty, integrity and dignity are torn apart society has big problems. A life and career accentuated upon the virtues of durability and high visibility always saluted for wisdom and respect. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

The good word is you'll always be saluted, highly regarded and forevermore an angel lending his expertise to eternity by patrolling those sacred gates of valor, wisdom, vision and more. So loyal and esteemed, Dade County, Officer Cook, will never forget your heart and soul sweating and toiling with composed tenacity for our peace of mind and dignity. With heroic integrity a passionate character and convictions all faithfully trusted and true how could anything be amiss? Badge#1664 worked with effort, efficiency and deliberate intuitions. Tranquility could be sensed on the horizons. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

Sensations are feelings good and sometimes not so great. A terrible loss to your family, Dade County community and to your entire police family, Officer Cook, your humble, honored and heroic life of reverence, righteousness and resiliency taken by violence the very same you made a solemn pledge to stop. Your performance was humility uplifting the hearts, souls and safe journeys of all residents of Dade County. Where bravery and boldness met wisdom, vision and maturity they all mattered as did your trusted and truthful commitments to excellence, pride andthe knowledge of accomplishing an aspiration you had as a young man to become a top class public servant. Sanctity, civility and accountability never become tangled in those webs of terror and torment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

What a career and a life though short cut that way because of one man acting undeniably out of control. Dade County, Officer Cook, was your venue where honor, dignity and integrity was sacrificed to better the morals and strides of mankind. Your virtue and valor built those chambers of courage and character conceived inliberty, humility fromyour tireless and unselfish heart and soul, the gold bonds of heroism, resolution, hope and goodwill. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

The rain comes and cools things off a bit. But the winds of heinousness and harm still keep blowing our way. You directed your goodwill, good nature and overall joy and peace to the population of Dade County and its streets where safety and serenity may walk together as one. Such warmth and a genuine concern for your fellowman created those letters of respect, diligence and are to be cherished as is your dignity, integrity and grit carrying out your dangerous obligations to rid humanity of this unearthly peril. May Our King keep your spirit sheltered forever and my you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The higher your soul soars the higher the humility of your heart will forever voyage.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

Vision takes acruity. Wisdom needs a heart and soul, the vessels by which these vehicles can navigate. You patrolled did your tasks, assignments and onuses with every breath and energy your heart could put out, Officer Cook. Dade County relied upon your abilities, dignity and integrity to touch the cores of those roads and lanes where decency and desire traveled down. Your accomplishments and success were from the humble creations of versatility and values, virtue that stoked goodwill and hope, it accentuated humble passions of a young man whose very life and career were given for mankind to further channel its resources of resolve and evolution. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

You elected willingly with a free heart to pursue a career of danger and peril, Officer Cook, yet,one that rewards a heart of unselfish dedication, decency and the dignity to fight and to battle adversity and for this honor, bravery alone will help but,integrity and trust might make better companions for a young man perpetuating his wisdom and respectful vision and maturity trying to get through the mazes of trouble here in Dade County. We remember as does your family,colleagues of the past and those friends and officers presently chasing after trial and tribulation looking for a ray of reason and hope, goodwill and humility to shine through those windows where fate and destiny cast their lines. You trained and learned all the ropes from respected and authoritative individuals. The lessons continue their points of professionalism today and remain admired and treasured. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

Never delete dignity, never interrupt a public servant's integrity and never hush honesty's trails of peace, trust and truth. For without them evil and wickedness will keep running over society's humane causes. You pursued our hopes, dreams and goodwill, Officer Cook, because this is what you desired to become. Challenging yet rewarding in that serenity, security and safety don't just happen so easily. Dade County watches and listens with eyes and ears for any semblance of virtue and vindication that may come their way. The heart and soul of Badge#1164 was deserving of life and to march forward with your sterling career until you would retire. No one ever imagined your pathways will conclude this fashion, no one. But character, conviction and a commitment to values, ideals and integrity assisted you in stemming this terrible tide of torment, turmoil and terror. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

Violence races rapidly around society limiting mankind's peaceful and purposeful pursuits of joy, freedom and happiness. We turn our eyes, ears and attention to stellar men and women, yourself, Officer Cook, forever the pride of Dade County and your adoring and beloved family. They continue your legacy of honor, integrity and humbleness in everything dignified and essential in living under the canopies of quiet and a fortitude of courage. A concerned heart that cared a soul that has not been extinguished only the goodwill, hope and determination to see progress through until its masterful work has been completed. God deemed your earthly missions as done, Officer Cook and now as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero,it will be about having the allegiance of poise and class watching from above to guide and direct all who have taken over your watch.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

A bridge often leads to a crossing, well your crossings, pathways and trails of justice, truth and trust, Officer Cook, were very well documented from the beginning by bravery and boldness, mettle and morals, honesty, integrity and dignity from such refined character, commitments to pride and excellence and the convictions based upon nobility, civility and accentuated by accountability. The citizens of Dade County have faithfully honored and paid homage to a loyal follower, a devoted and most highly dedicated leader of others when times and tensions mounted. The hills are steep, the mountains are high, your very symbolic heart, soul and graceful spirit my neighbor, friend and hero honored its pledges of perseverance and affirmations of awareness always and for eternity to be safeguarded by Our Lord Himself. Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

Where fire rages the righteous go to put out those fierce flames of ferocious terror. Dade County was spared probably much worse a fate than what was cast upon a community where your honored and heroically cherished and blessed name, Officer Cook, resides within your family, peers and friends' hearts and souls forevermore. What you accomplished was more than just attend to a scene,it was giving humility and heart a brand of dignity and integrity that a true, faithful and trusted gentleman of valor had. Such humane virtues, vision and the wisdom to make the right calls beyond your general responsibilities and for having class and desire may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Reverence and resolution are resiliency's tools of tenacity to be utilized nobly.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

At the apex of your career and at a youthful age, Officer Cook, when all things were looking up, evil and violence should have taken a beautiful soul from your family. You were a positive person and a man possessed with virtue, vigilance and honesty that created those bonds of safety and liberty for Dade County folks to thrive under. Integrity, dignity and character that embraced the hearts and souls of mankind that shall be fondly and solemnly saluted and greatly appreciated. Sanctity and humanity function because of your unselfish and unwavering actions of tireless energy and endeavor poised to make a distinct impression and now as an angel your perfectly fitted wings are allowing your spirit to rise and to soar higher each moment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 27, 2021

A dictator seems like a man or woman who just wants attention. You lead and motivated fellow officers, Officer Cook, exactly because of your abilities, capabilities and the meaning of success punctuated and accentuated by virtue of your own humble honor, dignity and integrity. The heart and soul, the letters of your reverent character, loyal and staunch convictions and the firm commitment to don a badge and uniform solely for protection and serenity. Dade County's folks won't forget your gallantry, greatness and gears of boldness, endeavor and whatever the assignments demanded. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Humility serves as a chariot for conveying esteem and a special warmth.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 26, 2021

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