Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
Heroes and heroines present themselves as honest, hard working and intelligently brave servants. Their yearning has taken them where ordinary people won't go. Police work is demanding, difficult but with integrity and loyalty at their sides the tasks as dangerous as they may be can be handled and dealt with. You served Dade County with respect,trust and character, Officer Cook, so humbly dogged and convincing they'll never forget what true heroism and civility is. A protector locked in on pursuing peace and quiet for a community that continues its struggles and yet fondly remembers a solemn young man gone from his family and this world all too early. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your consummate professional attitude created the culture that exists today and your life,career and duty will forevermore be saluted.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
The very ingredients of integrity, honesty and dignity call for exact measurements and anything less might make for a rougher time defeating evil. Such terror that still rears its ugliness needs weeding out and the folks in Dade County received your tender and gentle care, Officer Cook, all heroic and all proficient. You paid the ultimate price for displaying courage and class under duress and no public servant should be treated without proper reverence and humbleness for willingly signing on to tackle a fiercely demanding position. You led by example and lived your years as a hero shall. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
Believe you can accomplish and everything so long as you are decent, honest and dignified can be handled with the greatest respect and dedication. All your determination and resolve, Officer Cook, went into defending Dade County's freedoms and unities things not to be taken lightly or for that matter for granted. The goodness and esteem of life hangs in the balance and your sense of both skill and direction proved beyond any doubt your career if you were allowed to see things through would have been better. You had wisdom, promise and were certainly a polished veteran. Wickedness, Officer Cook, took your young life and robbed both you and your family of seeing you live out hopefully many decades of diligence and desire later. You'll forever be paid homage for your class and intelligence all created the vacuums of valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
You can tinker but when trouble exists toiling and treating all circumstances with humility and honesty must be the very first priority taken to alleviate these issues that confound,confuse and confront our very world. All your earthliest of passions and pursuits on behalf of Dade County, Officer Cook, were conducted strictly by the book. All rules, standards and professional conduct were consummate and the greatest loyalty and care was targeted at the people. Integrity, dignity and conviction all marched down those lanes of truth and trust. Virtue and vision were welcoming wisdom and clarity to share in your labors of willingness to defend and to serve. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
The enigma of evil always seems to lurk within our various venues. Your virtue and versatility, Officer Cook, validated what your family, colleagues and close friends already understood, that intuition,ingenuity and integrity would gladly be fighting and battling those adversities which threaten to derail and detain society's purposes and happiness as we go from place to place. Badge#1664 was all about decisions, leadership and commanding other comrades during peril. You patrolled for unity and liberty for six trusted and truthful years of serving Dade County. The fish still swim wherever and where violence can be hunted down and removed from our scopes of enhancement it must be done with rapidity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. all the respect and admiration from solemn and fond salutes of valor.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
One morsel of maturity, one brick of honor begins to lay the foundations of dignity and integrity within the welfare and prosperity of the people. Your community of Dade County, Officer Cook, recognized your true allegiance and considerations towards making mankind more safer and serener. Humility from a heart of sanctity and mettle always so loyal and meaningful made creating those bridges of boldness and bravery a little easier to put up. Commitment,pride and excellence all toiling their tenacity hand in hand for tranquility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
Everything honest, decent and real was performed by you, Officer cook, a hero making greater and more humble the citizens of your community of Dade County. behind trouble lies who knows and every time you answered whether dispatched or not you placed your unwavering, tireless and unselfish heart and soul in peril to save and protect the residents. You can't be oblivious to anything and your faced your earthly journeys and their missions of hope, faithfulness and resourcefulness with every bit of character and goodwill that now is very angelic as you look down over your esteemed and cherished family and peers. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 10, 2021
Passion is a purpose. Perseverance is a trait of character. Professionalism was and always is demanded and you gave your honorable and most cherished heroic endeavor to shield Dade County from suffering, Officer Cook. So trained and prepared to defend our serenity and enlightenment. That your heart and soul accomplished my neighbor, friend and hero. God implanted amazing character and lots of trustworthiness within your truthful spirit. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Such boldness,bravery and dignified integrity will forever be rewarded and sincerely blessed by Our Lord.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
Life is not a pair of dice to roll and to foolishly play with. Its sacred purposes are to better ourselves in a certain fashion every moment which you did by preserving our qualities of life and faith, Officer Cook. Dade County won't forget a man so heroic and so dignified who gave his every breath of heart to serve and to stabilize those rudders of resolve and compasses of courage now as an angel encircling us for eternity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of integrity and intuitive ingenuity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
Take heart and soul to the top of the ladders of heaven and from there Our Creator will lead your honor, integrity and dignity softly through His green fields of fruition and ferocity. You had more than ample resources with which to battle evil, Officer Cook. Make no mistake May 16, 1979 will not be overlooked and you'll be saluted fondly and solemnly for a sacred onus well carried out. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Trust and truth gave your maturity more than youth and yearning, it taught society a great lesson on respect and responsibility.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
Create and allow your humility and valor to to charge. You took direction very well, Officer Cook and in turn were able to lead others through danger because of humane honor, reverence and the dignity that blends in with integrity which made Dade County folks safer once more. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Conviction, truth and trust usually yield loyal character and stellar commitment.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
A crane used for construction goes up and down. Honesty, integrity and dignity cannot ever decrease. You poured your entire heart and soul, Officer Cook, into your heroics of passion delivering acceptable stability and uncompromising tranquility to all Dade County. It was found in your DNA and character. Sanctity that lives on in your family. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
History records all the faithful actions of those heroes so brave and well versed. You were replete, Officer Cook, with consummate honor, integrity and dignity which helped you to uphold the laws. Keeping Dade County well secured and safe did require every ounce of energy from your wise and noble heart. Your family and comrades will not forget their friend whose spirit and virtue were A plus as was your unselfishly tireless character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
You love what you do and perform to the very best of your God given abilities. Dade County relished, respected and greatly admired your humble capacity, Officer Cook. Your heroism and honesty made that humane impression upon Dade County and its people of whom you loyally served with diligence, distinction and above all character and clutch commitments to both pride and excellence. Morals, mettle and resolve that helped your watch over a community that forever salutes your sacred missions, journeys and goodwill from a most devout gentleman. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 9, 2021
Life is about give and take. Not just one and nothing else. To resolve and solve conflicts requires every bone and your heart, Officer Cook, was needed to overcome such awful adversity here in Dade County. Its people held you to a higher regard and your unwavering dedication to duty was surely heartfelt. Not only integrity,character trust and truth put forth, but every morsel of scruples was founded to properly place bad away from the goodwill that humanity strives for everyday. An angel so wise and sterling. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your actions that tragic day, Officer Cook, demonstrated true allegiance and versatility to a community and department searching for answers. God must have needed your spirit more where He could watch over it while keeping you forevermore safe from harm.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 8, 2021
A life of substance is a life bounded by virtue and vision. So clear and crisp just as your wisdom and maturity, Officer Cook, endless and unrelenting. They all stayed in there hunting down violence and providing the elements of extra special honesty, integrity and dignity all given to Dade County so that its folks could live and thrive in happiness. Your missions and journeys my neighbor, friend and hero were loyal and all for God's name, yours is for eternity being rewarded for service and sacrifice. Rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 8, 2021
A humble warrior with a heart of values and virtues patrolling his community of Dade County where you were beloved and very admired. Such reverence and tireless effort poured forth into your labors, Officer Cook, to create that bridge for all future generations. Mankind saw your relevance and also dignity,integrity and real action giving mayhem and evil a fierce look. You performed in an outstanding fashion and won't be forgotten for ingenuity and intuition. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Foundations laid down are cornerstones constructed for serenity and unity to be spread out far and wide. Everything sacred and all the fruition of relativity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 8, 2021
A touch of humility and a stroke of class can go a long way down those roads, trails and pathways of righteousness and courage. So much of your life and career though relatively humble with heroism and character so respected to be fondly saluted won't be overlooked. You took Dade County, Officer Cook and made its safer than before, a bit less now that you are one of many angels providing its gates of gallantry with more protection. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 8, 2021
Staying safe and well these days with a pandemic in our midst requires the utmost adherence to all rules, laws and regulations. You mastered your roles and tasks very well, Officer Cook and have never been forgotten for your heroic and honored service all loyal and truthful to Dade County residents. A gentleman who embodied his roles and onuses with very much an unselfish and tireless passion,energy within your stoic heart and soul. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 8, 2021
Better to be an asset than a liability. All your capabilities and abilities, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County were undertaken with the greatest heroism and honorable intentions so God engraved. For having dignity and integrity which fought extra hard for peace and stability may Our Creator bless your heart of acumen and your soul of both character and commitment to thought out and so trusted and truthful. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 8, 2021
Compromise is a word that should be humbly utilized to bring about a harmonious resolution to any and all problems. Its resources are grand and for public servants who are vested in the truest words of serenity they need not ask. Security, safety and unity for the world must be reached in order for our plans, purposes and aspirations to march forward. You shook a sense of reality and moved the area of Dade County onward, Officer Cook, with solid work ethics, dependable loyalty, a trust so honest and sacred nothing was going to derail, deter nor prevent your missions and journeys from being completed. A man of integrity standing firm on his humanely valued and treasured principles carrying great weight as one with outstanding character, staunch commitment and sterling convictions offered humanity. Angels are heroes and heroines who have made the ultimate sacrifice to benefit mankind in its throes of torment, bedlam and turmoil. Your years and maturity, Officer Cook, have all been dutifully blessed and continue to be rewarded for your unwavering and tireless service to your cherished community. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 7, 2021
A broad smile binds sincerity, hope and peace to the branches of bravery, boldness and humble honor. It surely did, Officer Cook, it surely did. Dade County was protected by your wings of wisdom, diligence and indeed a courageous heart of gold. The wings that Our Lord fitted you with are allowing you to stay forever in the skies of heaven at all moments. The darkest of times here are forever aglow by the very virtue of a soul and spirit that contributed to the well being and welfare of humanity's truth and trust which Badge#1664 always expended the best of efforts to quell any and all disturbances. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 7, 2021
The lines are drawn. Good versus evil. Now you have to choose how to live your life and to conduct your affairs. Yours, Officer Cook, were straight arrow and always with honest intentions, dignified resources and integrity always giving Dade County its beat hopes and goodwill of survival. That's what your family and peers wished would have happened on May 16,1979. Your life was so senselessly taken and forever the man who robbed you of humility, character and truth should surely have thought twice before pulling that trigger. Heaven gained an angel, a man stoic and blessed with every ounce of virtue and stamina from your heart. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Every ounce of fortitude and dedication was left right there on the streets of Liberty City for all people to deliberate and to fondly remember a wise young man of caring and concern for his community and mankind in general.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 7, 2021
Wisdom is the source of life, the very breath of vision that maturity should see and by we mean to state without reservation that honor, dignity and integrity must be maintained and possessed throughout a person's life if any level of accomplishment is to be recognized. You had the admiration and respect of your fellow officers, Officer Cook, their compatriot and loyal comrade who did not deserve to lose your life in such a heinous and callous way. Forever a gentleman with a gentle heart, passionate soul and a spirit of adventure surely your virtue has been blessed and certainly rewarded for its kindest and most sincerest of service to all Dade County. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 7, 2021
Ferocity must be unrelenting and endless if one is to conquer evil and violence. Our societies and their communities must survive, thrive and strive to live faithful,peaceful and most humbly constructive lives of purpose. Our goals all vary and with a semblance of honesty,integrity and dignity only then can plans be fortified and aspirations reached. You worked for a reason, Officer Cook and Dade County was your launching pad proof positive where goodwill and hope brought honor, integrity and dignified humility to your family and community, all your endeavors and personality won't be overlooked as you are to be paid homage for heroism and putting evil in its rightful location. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
February 7, 2021