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

You were a consummate man of God, faith and devotion, Officer Cook. Your paths and trails were paved honorably by your virtue and versatility. So honored and dignified, mankind and society had your character, commitment to pride and convictions true and most trusted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 9, 2021

You plan and prepare never knowing what might transpire. You are forever an inspiration to so many, Officer Cook. Heroes are dignified and battle evil with unwavering integrity and whatever humbleness is always within their hearts and souls. Dignity and humanity are surely missing your presence here. such a wonderfully warm smile so enriching and engaging. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 9, 2021

Being reluctant can hurt the success of a mission be undertaken to save lives. Dade County, Officer Cook, was your place of heroic honor and ingenuity. Being safe and sound was always your priority in saving lives. Persistence pays dividends. Sanctity and dignity can certainly fight their those wars over terror. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 9, 2021

Courage and honor crusading around Dade County with such great dignity and humility from your heart and soul, Officer Cook, never to be forgotten. The citizens have been grateful and your sacred missions of hope,faith and goodwill always will be cherished and most unselfish. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 9, 2021

When that thick black smoke billows out of the chimney you had better be prepared. The soot of violence leaves a mark no one will forget and nor will Dade County ever forget you, Officer Cook, your family's hero and department's too. Integrity, honesty and dignity always flowed from your veins and your strong heart did beat with boldness and bravery. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

Faith must be deliberate.Goodwill and hope must balance their virtues and due diligence at some place in time while guarding the public. You made your messages and honesty count for more than Dade County could ever ask of yourself, Officer Cook, always a hero and always special with a heart of versatility and a mind that scrutinized your every move while providing safety, unity and liberty for society. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

You chartered a course of persistent pursuits of peace and whatever came about from your undying endeavors, Officer Cook. All treasured, all esteemed and all most humbly dignified. Dade County very much appreciated your faithfulness and resiliency taking those trails of passion wherever they needed to be. Clear and wise, mature and loyal, you never let anyone down and demonstrated such competence. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

Having a hunch, a hint and a clue are just a start. There must be some meat on the bone, dignity,character, respect and honest integrity all poured into your concentrations of justice if truth and trust can prevail. Dade County was made securer by your tireless energy and bountiful bravery, Officer Cook, heroism so sentimental and never lost during tense moments. We must remember with solemn and fond salutes for your life represented a clean start for all concerned. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

Callousness only complicates fruitful journeys of acumen and awareness throughout a community. Such terror and unbalanced mayhem only stimulate more serious issues that public servants already have a tough time getting a handle on things. Your gifts to mankind, Officer Cook, were honor and humility all from your heroic heart of gold and gallantry. So much dignity and truth balanced against the scales of trust and integrity. Dade County will never and has not overlooked your sacred missions in life and during your most duly profound career. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

Negativity is a most profound dilemma with not such an easy cure. Society and humanity beg for some semblance of hope and faith with goodwill never wavering. At least, Officer Cook, you dignity, integrity and honesty were sacred and never waned nor neglected their responsibilities toward Dade County. A man so excellently talented and now an angel forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

Violence invalidates all the good mankind deserves. It brings rancor and revolving doors of evil that turns things upside down. Dade County was delivered superior care and professional service during your watch, Officer Cook. Heroes don't just fall into the citizens' laps everyday. And with your honesty,integrity and character so dignified and so unassuming wickedness had to look elsewhere to ratchet up bedlam. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. Angels float freely without hindrance or suffering. Though, your family misses you greatly as do your esteemed colleagues.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 8, 2021

Tenacity strikes its targets of terror hoping to more than neutralize its advances. Torment and turmoil must be more than tamed it must be completely stopped dead in its tracks. Dade County's trails were paved by your unselfish and tireless integrity, honesty and dignity, Officer Cook, all heroic and all character. You can never be certain when that time sadly comes it came too soon and way too early for a man of humble devotion and steadfast humility from your mighty heart and soul. Your spirit now perpetuates the lights of heaven and they won't be dimmed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A foundation so steady and rock solid just as your perseverance and resourceful faithfulness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Durability and versatility offer accountability, capability and reliability all the more chances to succeed mightily. All the virtue, vigilance and valor, Officer Cook, so heroically honorable and most functionally diligent. For steering, guiding and navigating Dade County through some awfully evil times may God place His gentle hands upon your humane soul of wisdom and vision. You were a complete public servant who saw trouble and raced right into its clutches saving the citizens whom you took an oath to protect. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character spells commitment and conviction spells courage as only a proud man would do.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Esteem carries a great burden not many want to take ownership of. Its onuses are humble and yet are being blessed and rewarded for those willing to comply. You learn. You listen and you put into practice. You put in the work extra time and things paid off for you, Officer Cook and Dade County saw its peace and honesty framed where integrity and character are in the same sentences of courage and dignity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. God's palaces and thrones are blessed by heroes so completely virtuous and accountable.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

You stabilized Dade County, Officer Cook, always humbly,humanely and honorably. Such a hero of deep appreciation whose fondness is now forever being embraced and saluted solemnly for honor, dignity and integrity to passionately step forward. The battles still rage. The fights brew. The wars sadly are not finished. One day things will calm down for good. You began a renaissance of progress and your work will be remembered as our guiding lights to channel our efforts moving forward with your soul, Officer Cook, observing us carrying your legacy proudly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An orchestrator,instigator and agitator have no place undermining our proficiency and movements going forward.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Too clean of a uniform and surely questions may be asked. Sometimes it is essential to charge right in to redirect confrontational wickedness and redirect hope, goodwill and faith to a neighborhood as you purposefully and masterfully did, Officer Cook. One hero, too young yet way more versatile and mature than others. Dade County was under siege that fateful day and your actions of quickness saved more lives than we could comprehend today. Integrity led dignity and honesty down those decent trails where trust and truth are to be found. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The too young part was that you were a six year veteran of your department entrusted to train and to take a squad to fight evil.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Desertion to and from duty is as bad as a rioter, looter or traitor. So seditious and so ignominious. You were a most blessed and revered young man, Officer Cook,cherished and esteemed, greatly admired and respected for your insightful integrity, devoted dignity and humble honesty all leading the way for liberty and safety here in Dade County. Your home and eternal final resting place my neighbor,friend and hero. "We Shall Be One," means just that unity can undo the cowardly actions of people whose reverence and resolve lacks fundamental scruples. Behavior such as that does not belong within the confines of humanity. Keep soaring like an angel tied to the wings of heroism and sanctity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

You finish reading one book, you open another. The thirst to gain wisdom and humble knowledge never wanes nor diminishes. Dade County always was given a new lease on life because of your tireless and unselfish sacrifice, Officer Cook, one completed honorably and most sacredly. So brave and yet you were so replete with virtues and principles of dignity and integrity, such sterling character that everyone had a noble word for you. The exemplary, the epitome of a versatile and most durable man of steel in the sense of being present to backup your comrades and the people you served without being required. Says a lot. Actions that meant the distinction between life and death flickering like a bulb. Your mortal soul and spirit lives on in heaven next to God's own divine grace. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

To seek truth and fairness you must travel down those lanes where trust and justice lurk. They lean out to those yearning to learn. To search for a proper lesson on the right pathways and vicinity for direction to engage. Well you uplifted, upheld and demonstrated a vigorous enrichment of all society and of Dade County, Officer Cook. A man, a gentleman with a special soul and a heart of virtue plowing newer fields of ferocity in order for the affects and efforts of integrity, dignity and the humility of honesty to take shape. You'll certainly never be forgotten for reaching out and inspiring the masses with your acumen, wisdom and maturity all faithful and ever so impacted and diligent. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Thank God for your efforts, Officer Cook, at rehabilitating mankind. It's debilitating the dignity of all who journey the land looking for the right opportunity to see progress and not regression. The residents of Dade County moved forward because of your heroic feats of a strong heart, a grand soul and backbone tested by resolve and by having excellent character, conclusive convictions and the truthful and most notably trusted commitment to pride and excelling in all your tasks never easy and filled with potholes. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Dade County history won't forget its heroes and heroines of honor, dignity and integrity. They all acquitted themselves with earnest endeavor and their trails have been paved by everything decent with reverence , resolve and a battling will to survive the challenges and rigors that danger places by their badgers of bravery and boldness. You were a consummate individual, Officer Cook, so vital and duly vigilant. Every nook and cranny was turned over where terror and trouble lied. God has a good man, a gentleman of esteemed loyalty patrolling His gates of perfection always missed greatly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

God dictates and we try to sincerely dedicate ourselves to the purposes of why we were created? Dade County is a large area no disputes there. You served and preserved the dignity,integrity and quality of life, Officer Cook, so vital to existing. We breathe and exhale. We live by a sacred rule be nice to others if you want that in return. Those cornerstones and their humble foundations were gently placed down for humanity to more than gaze at. The eyes of all look to Thee at at points and seasons.A great man gone before his time with a host of memories. Heroism serves as that driving force. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

People play cards, hop scotch, they fish and yet violence and evil are not to be taken lightly. Not to be toyed with. And your undivided attention to every detail,every circumstance, Officer Cook, allowed Dade County to live without fear or regret. When your honesty, bravery and dignity is usurped we have a big problem. Your unselfish sacrifice serves a lesson for every public servant, every man, woman and child to take life and character seriously. Nothing nowadays is funny. Your humility insured respect and class for eternity and it's tragic because of one man's lack of anything proper in society's service to the world. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

The absence of your smile and demeanor only validates why your versatility and virtue, Officer Cook, were so declarative and humbly heroic. Dade County witnessed what transpired after shootings last year. Rioting, looting, criminal trespassing, etc. You were a man of action,commitment to morals and ideals we as people hold proudly, with dignity and the integrity that being free to do whatever celebrates. Sacred missions on behalf of mankind to constantly pursue harmony while doing the will of Our Creator by His shining mercy, grace and compassion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

Nothing more dehumanizing than the chaos and bedlam over freedom and a right as a citizen of this great land to cast your vote and then what happens? Utter and complete lack of honor, respect and dignity. integrity and character were sullied and trampled upon because of those people who wanted to riot and desecrate the US Capitol. The police who must risks their lives as you did for Dade County, Officer Cook, don't know why they did not respond fast enough and someone must be held to the carpet and accountable. One person died and that's too many. Your intuitions, ingenuity and maturity were all mankind's saviors and shall be saluted for their wisdom, acumen and keen vision. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Keep looking down on your family, comrades and close personal friends.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

January 7, 2021

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