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 your department's insurance policy, Officer Cook, meaning you assured the people they would be safer and more at leisure to pursue their life passions. Serenity and security are tough to broker at times but with your ingenuity, intuition and intelligence, dignity and integrity could honorably stand tall defending us. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero. God's house of character, commitments to everything mindful and excellent rested in your boldest of convictions. You fought the battle, Officer Cook and uncovered newer leaves to be surely enriching to society today. All police are those policies of respect and perseverance. It certainly never departed your side.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

Have a plan stick to the program at hand. Dade County had its tensions and challenges ahead. Your entire career and life, Officer Cook,rested in a nobly honorable search for harmony and its unity throughout your community. One that has forever revered your cherished name and soul my neighbor,friend and hero. A large part of your dignity,integrity went to heaven the day Our Master called for you completing your missions of justice here. Never forgotten and always solemnly saluted for bravery and its civility. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

Your parents pride rested in your frank and fruitful professional endeavors on behalf of Dade County, Officer Cook. So caring,sincere and creatively heroic. Peace and safety have a certain special calling. Yours, was to seek and seize the ample opportunities to make this bond between mankind and our world. Earthly desires and your devotion spurred your sacred passions and their kindest of missions to leave that distinct heroic impression to be shared, remembered, celebrated and saluted for encompassing all heart and soul truth and trust banded as one. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

One door and one window shut does not mean we forget nor overlook your heroism, honesty and boldness. Dade County shall remember your life of fighting crime, your integrity stellar and clear, your dignity sterling and thoughtful. It was faith and determination that sees one through their journeys of which humanity hopes for a happy medium. The grass is greener where you patrol eternity forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. All class. All resolving peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

Everything utilized to defend and protect the public must be in working order. The uniform, the badge, the vehicle and the person whose top priority is to honestly deal with all issues,circumstances and situations that involve integrity, bravery and the character that dignity and integrity bring to a job. Your life and values, Officer Cook,represented the dawn of the day and now others who have taken over your watch must act the part and carry humility close to their hearts and very souls. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dade County won't forget your grace and charming persona.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

When the alarm rings it is off to the races. Hit the pavements running. That's what you did your entire life and career with Dade County, hitting the honest trails of trust and truth where heroics did matter but you were not looking for rewards and awards. Just knowing you carried out your basic duties,Officer Cook, honorably, with dignity and the touches of tenacity, integrity and conviction so refined and humane. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

All the praises, blessings and rewards are due your way, Officer Cook. They were the stimulant of enrichment and engagement here in Dade County. A very low keyed and noble hero who laid down his life for the sanctity and stability of a region that was plagued by proverbial nightmares of evil. So sinister and yet here we are nearly at what should have been birthday number sixty-seven. A life of divine acceptance, faithfulness and truthful goodwill spread with sincerity taken in a heartbeat. Fate and destiny move rapidly we as I know you did, Officer Cook,made every moment that much more precious. Life is that blueprint and we are His servants. Now an angel of valor whose virtue soars like the gentle breezes. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

The stakes are high, it's the violence that must dry up for good. Dade County was well protected, defended and preserved by your passions and heart, Officer Cook. A most heroic young man pursuing his dreams with all the gusto and zest that decency, desire and devotion can enhance. God gave you a plethora of skills and traits that are familiar to mankind: honesty,integrity and dignity, bit with reverence and character lacking commitment and excellence too lack their fortitude. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

A police officer's constituency is the whole community where they heroically serve the people with honor, integrity and humility from dignity's character. Your respect and bravery, Officer Cook, shed a new light on Dade County and forever made your legacy more sacred than ever. The hurt and grief your family suffered they should only know happy times and good health and serenity for all parties concerned. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 24, 2020

One sudden fit of rage and in less than ten minutes three officers are lying on the hot pavement and one tragically died giving his life and career up for his community of Dade County. A turn of events, Officer Cook, where things sadly went so wrong and it did not have to happen. Forever was your mortal honor, integrity and dignity uprooted from your family, colleagues and friends. Your family asks why? Your department asks why? A healthy young man in the youth of his life,so full of game and passion ready to patrol and exhibit all the happiness and joy of life. Learning a lesson can be exceedingly difficult and sometimes painful at best. Life sometimes throws us a curve ball and we must respond positive and affirmatively. Four and a half decades later police are stilling preaching,reviewing and practicing all they were taught pulling those chains of courage fiercely and most relentlessly. Your legend, Officer Cook,carries its burdens,responsibilities, humility and yet all versatile. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A man of character his value is endless, yours now starts its chapter in eternity soaring as an angel so revered and ethically blessed and most duly rewarded. Badge#1664 forever graced humanity with a smile, charm,. hope and some charisma to see the end of bedlam,chaos and mayhem.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Look at a dot. A point of reference but much more than that. Take away God forbid a man's honesty, integrity and dignity, evil begins to settle in and exhausts the public trust eroding its truth and esteem. Dade County was kept from shrinking into an abyss by your most heroic actions, Officer Cook. You can be clear and certain your blessed name and treasured spirit rests in peace my neighbor,friend and hero secure in the knowledge that you saved your brothers and the residents from an even worse dilemma that truly tragic day for all police,the entire world mourned your loss, Officer Cook,so sacred,so sudden and yet so senseless if only that man gave himself up and made it easier on himself the end result would have been greater than the other parts of the equation.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Gasoline permits a car to start and go backward or forward. What always must carry forward is a man or woman's self worth and righteous honor and humbleness. Never a day or second without these, Officer Cook. They were the bookends to your dignified career and life where integrity, met dignity and such refined character. A commitment to Dade County taxpayers always saluted, revered and simply humane. Mankind really feels your absence. You were the consummate gentleman of all heart and soul determined to battle through danger and peril. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Turbines of tenacity always turning so truthfully and in a humbly trustworthy manner. You never turned your back on Dade County ever, Officer Cook, promising your sacred bonds of dignity and integrity to display great character that delivered the goodwill and hope that security, serenity and of course safety bring. Forever missed and cherished, respected and admired for helping humanity out of its danger zones. Humility is reserved and civility is what every public servants must carry within the confines of both their badges and crisply tailored uniforms of diligence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Onward and upward does your family travel, Officer Cook, clutching tightly to your heroic legacy.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Verbally speaking sometimes chatter unrelenting is bad. Action and honesty looks better on those frames of tenacity and humility where the lenses are never clearer. Dade County was a source of your resourcefulness and faithfulness, Officer Cook, heroically well placed and a deciding factor in whether or not harmony and stability would live on to witness another sunrise or sunset. Just so much warmth and compassion from your heart of golden integrity and dignity so humble and admired. You'll always be a brother whose soul shines brightly in God's everlasting skies above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

The wellsprings of wickedness unfortunately fill our land with too much adversity and strife. You occupied a sacred and golden role here in Dade County, Officer Cook,honorably and heroically doing mankind and your Lord's humble service protecting and stabilizing the corridors where the public goes. Peace and humility make chug along those tracks of tranquility unabated. You made everything possible happen except when on May 16,1979 as you were finishing your day watch, domestic terror split Liberty City apart like a fuse going off. You answered your last call without fail,without hesitation and without regret rescuing the citizens and your comrades who were victims of a lonely and depressed young man lacking character, scruples and dignity that was your last breathing ounce of energy from your humane heart of concern. Saluted for courage above and beyond and eternally blessed for being a most treasured soul with a sacred spirit. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Just think Officer Cook, if you were here today to push the swings and seesaws where your great-nieces and great-nephew play in their yard it would bring gladness and joy to your heart and soul. From the perches of heaven can you humble witness this seeing them continue your heroic legacy clearly defined by honesty, integrity and dignity for all your efforts to make Dade County safer and sounder once more. Always a well admired young man guided by common sense and a wise heart of gold, vision and maturity surely sounded louder when you hit the roads to follow your aspirations. From then and forever you'll always be an inspiration to all society,humanity and mankind. Truth and trustworthiness certainly missed terribly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Well placed vigilance and humble virtue all placed a greater load to bear on your broadest of shoulders, Officer Cook.Legends must first earn their resources by simply being first rate and top notch in all that they achieve. You climbed those ladders of training and practice to create a professional impact an impression of dignity and integrity never more respected and poignantly honored and saluted for bravery and compassion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

The fruits of your labors, Officer Cook, yielded heroic humility and honor reserved for a most determined servant of God. Your life and career was held in high regard for ushering in a newer tomorrow because of your sacrifice over forty-one years ago. Dade County observed a man with a sterling reputation for integrity and dignified character defending our lots where our missions were undertaken with heaven's name and your well verse vigilance and virtue stamped upon them. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

One small humble step forward has a chance to yield success. One never knows if you don't endeavor. Well, you, Officer Cook, were more about progressive passion and a piercing perseverance in and around your community of Dade County where everything from honesty, integrity and respectful dignity were counted on to aid and to preserve the status quo of life so valuable. Never forgotten and forever dedicated and devoted to your professional responsibilities. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

Your leadership skills, honored and most heroic, Officer Cook, should be commended. Dade County thrived under your unselfish courage and convictions to make peace and liberty a staple to last forever. Dignity and integrity working hand in hand with a warrior of character, a charming smile and a clear vision for a wiser and safer future. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 23, 2020

A serene soul, a steady hand, a truthful mouth, the expressions of endeavor and honesty squaring off against the likes of enormous adversity which you handled excellently well on behalf of Dade County, Officer Cook. The butterflies, the birds and bees fly just as your dignified soul of distinction for having character, reverence and integrity supporting your composed mannerisms of ideals and scruples so uniquely humble and most notably heroic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The building blocks and concrete began the long process of rebuilding,recreating and restructuring stability, hope and harmony for humanity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 22, 2020

Doctors examine and take certain measurements of vital organs. You begin to measure a man's young heart of pride, honorable humility and humanely placed heroic actions. All of yours, Officer Cook, were important, vigilant and full of virtue. The cream of character, commitment and conviction really shown forth. Dade County was patrolled by the awe inspiring wisdom, thoughtful dedication of a sincerely noble servant. If truth, trust and tenacity could revisit us and revive your beautiful soul, Officer Cook, your family, friends and colleagues would absolutely be delighted. The heavens and skies above sing your praises as God has placed His hands of compassion upon your spirit cradling you for comfort and eternal safekeeping while blessing and rewarding His trusted esteem in your abilities to defend and provide safe harbors, havens and peaceful shelters for mankind. Always admired, respected, saluted and so poignantly honored as forevermore a hero whose legacy remains the beacon of hope and goodwill for the pride of Dade County. Your home community Officer Cook won't desert nor let you down ever again! Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 22, 2020

Dignity, integrity and character are the finished by-products of a man's humble, humane and heroic honor. It delegated and was dedicated to serving the will of Dade County's own. Such absolute resolve, Officer Cook, placed in harm's way to safely provide the ample sincerity to a safer world. Humanity is beset with all sorts of calamity and consternation these days. A little prayer of thanks for your grateful heart, soul and life of delivering the proof as to why good public servants, angels all of them are essential. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Heaven welcomed you forty-one years ago too long ago but never forgotten. A principle, a passion and a purpose fulfilled by fruitful anticipation. Determination, devotion and decency all remain treasured and sacred.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 22, 2020

America stands ready and on guard to rightfully,faithfully and truthfully defend its principles, honor and character which cannot allowed to be destroyed, uprooted or shot off the face of this planet by violence, terror, torment and unspeakable corruption and violence perpetrated by unmoral, vile and callous human beings. You stood toe to toe, face to face and wherever your heroic and dignified heart belonged to shield all Dade County, Officer Cook. A hero with an impeccable legacy of intelligence,ingenuity and the intuition that saw your journeys, missions and goodwill through to a semblance of stabilizing harmony for mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 22, 2020

One heart, one mind and one soul all collaborating to bring a concise and proud destiny to a world waking up not knowing their fate. The clock moves on as time does not stand still for even a moment. Dade County, Officer Cook, was greeted daily by your smiling demeanor and obvious devotion to its calls of onus shared by all who protect. Heroism is dignity, character and integrity waking up to smell the crisp air each day. You sacrificed and God has you asleep soundly as your spirit guards those pearliest of valiant gates of resolve, trust and fairness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

October 22, 2020

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