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

The scent of evil marinates on the streets turning quiet and harmony into an army of awful violence. You aided and saved the people of Dade County and your comrades everyday, Officer Cook, never turning a blind eye when security, honesty, integrity and dignity was at stake. A hero of truth and trust always prapared, gracious and enthusiastic about central roles. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character conquers. An angel in heaven patrolling the gates of grit and gumption.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 10, 2020

The signals are clear. The smoke is immense. The turmoil treacherous. Dade County wa sunder duress and tensions during your watch, Officer Cook and no doubt you tried to untangle those dangerous moments. But, honesty, integrity and dignity battled violence and delivered a renowned sense of optimism. Forty-one years later your life, career and character surely have been fondly, solemnly and duly remembered and paid heroic homage. A soul that keeps is brilliance upon your family, peers and loyal acquaintances. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

Mankind now seems to be one giant obstacle course. Danger, peril, grief and enormous suffering. Police are the humane, honest and heroic servants who by their sacred acts of kindnessre supposed to ease the burdens that are placed upon the hearts of the citizens. Dade County was your juridiction, Officer Cook, where you life missions began and sadly were ended by the evil of one wayward individual. A chapter of trust and truth that uplifted and upgraded humanity's virtues,principles and ideals. Always solemnly treasured, admired and worldly revered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

Walk and you'll find that treasure of noble circumstance. Run and you'll pass that opportunity of a lifetime to create that impressionable world. Well, you did both very well, Officer Cook, a real hero whose life and heart stretched far and wide here in Dade County. Our dignity and integrity have been allowed to march on exactly because of yours too. With convincing character and a truth commitment to progress surely as Our Creator guides your spirit above, He too observes and directs those who have taken your torch of loyalty. Never better and always brighter by your versatility and unselfish virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Honor is humbly perfect in the next world. Angels all surrounding Our Lord's houses of friendship and leadership.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

Those bonfires of evil just keep erupting into flames of ferocious violence. Your actions, Officer Cook, honored and heroic rescued the citizens of Dade County from more adverse harm. Your life and career of morals, values and mettle will never be forgotten. We pay you respect and admiration for esteem and cherished faithfulness to mankind. A gift of God with more left to accomplish. God needed yoursoul next to Him. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

Yearning is a desire to enrich the very foundations of mankind. Good men and women dedicated and devout all promised to make harmony out of harm and unfortunate bloodshed. You took your sacred oath, Officer Cook and were certainly instrumental in securing Dade County's folks from sure bedlam. One sad day and one giant loss to your family and department to be saluted and paid sincere homage. Honor worth its truth and trustworthiness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

A night of sleep helps the body delve into the rigors of the next day. With a courageous heart and mind of steel did you, Officer Cook, heroically go about your solemn duties to preserve respect, dignity and integrity here in Dade County. Heroism to remember, endeavor to cherish. Your soul and spirit certainly revolve around your family and humanity 24-7. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character. Badge#1664 was a real man of truth and unity who fixed his community of Dade County from its ailments of the worst circumstances. A solid career carved from the rocks of resiliency and dedication, surely Officer Cook, you were the consummate public servant whose venerable journeys all validated your convictions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

A nightmare of mayhem zips through a community and a never ending resolve and honest effort kept Dade County safe and sound. A real hero, Officer Cook, your life missions surely enhanced dignity and integrity. It was your classic character, staunch commitments to pride and humility and a badge full of open ended integrity that fought off crime and terror. Never overlooked and certainly saluted for bravery and esteemed faithfulness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 9, 2020

With life and liberty in honorable hands, heinous cowards who commit such dasterdly crimes will be caught. Your rhythm of work, Officer Cook, was absolutely just what the people of Dade County deserved and received. A man with stamina and energy all in your golden heart. Truth and trust in your humble uniform of quality and excellence. You graced the world, your family and professional colleagues with respect, dignity and the artful yearning to face each dilemma with rock solid humility and heroic dimensions to be treasured by everyone who came across your smiling and pleasant efficiency. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

To see a society in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. Life is an ambiguity. So many changes. So many clifffalls. Peril racing around that very corner looking to snatch away a human being from his or her loved ones robbing earth of their very essense. An impactful statement, yet, your humbleness and its sacred passions, Officer Cook, heroically tried their utmost to reign in evil while bestowing some semblance, some effort of safe huts for Dade County and their residents to uplift their humanity by way of Divine Providence. A hero so cherished and so well placed. You'll be forever rewarded and blessed my neighbor, friend and hero. God knows His angels, He also understands true grit and total truth and truth. Mettle's consequences facing men and women characters of devoutness and humane respect for mankind.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Forever endearing, grateful and enriching society with your pleasant smile and most upbeat and uplifting demeanor. Only a sincere young man so gifted and talented, yet wiser than most and stabler than the pack. Your concentration, Officer Cook, was to methodically seal in some hope and esteem while possessing honor and bravery alongwith admired humility all from your dignified heart of integrity to be paid its homage every passing second of time. Everything seems to just fly by. Badge#1664 was well liked, respected and loyally faithful to every task placed on your shoulders of gratitude. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Life is like glass,so fragile but not fickle. The faint hearted cannot handle such stress and rigors of versatility that these men and women of bravery, honesty and keen composure offer to a community where dignity, integrity and character reside at every hero or heroine's doorstep. Yours, Officer Cook, here in Dade County persevered as you and Karen welcomed many to your home to spend a happy, quiet and relaxed time off the job. All seriousness never matter of factly. A valiant soul whose spirit flies and soars above us keeping unison in tact. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Police surely cannot act like turtles. Slow for some but a little faster in answering those calls of responsilbility where life and death could meet at the worst of times. Never timid, always tenacious, your courtesies, Officer Cook, held back violence as well as it should. A man on a mission to both refine and to reshape Dade County's stability and clear peace of mind. God only knows why a gentleman of fine honesty, humble dignity and forthright integrity was evilly taken from his loved ones. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Success builds those sound bridges to a brighter tomorrow.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Cars racing. Officers responding. Citizens in panic and already on edge. You answered your last call on this earth, Officer Cook, as humbly, as solemnly and as honorably heroic as one can. Dade County and your comrades can certainly be thankful for your rapid response and fabrics of integrity built into humane dignity. The evildoers now with your trusted soul watching had better be careful and look out. Those men and women are charged with a burdensome task of humble proportions. A heart and soul to be revered, though your family will always have that absense to grieve. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

A candle by day, some love and comfort at night. One who has a spouse these days is not only blessed and fortunate but is deemed a complete person because of someone to share their life. The good. The bad and when a loved one gives their life scrutiny must give way to understanding the reasons as to why? You pursued peace and tranquility for Dade County, Officer Cook, precisely because of your dreams, desires and aspirations. A goal set in stone, cast in humble and heroic honor, dignity and purely trustworthy integrity. Nothing must be lost as your soul keeps lighting up our skies by day and night. Humility and nobility resting soundly with you my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Addictions to honesty, integrity and dignity keep a person whoned in on their climbs forward during their spirited careers and sacred lives. We live, we breathe, we pray and contemplate our very futures. Yours, Officer Cook, was bright and shiny. A badge of courage worn proudly. Dade County was watched over by a most prudent and fundamentally sound officer. Safe havens, peaceful homes, evil taken off its streets. You did all you could with a touch of class, desire and direction. Your peers respected your ingenuity and intuition why you were so mature beyond your scope of years to be relevantly honored and fondly saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Weakness is not always of body and mind. Violence and evil places society in a state of mind sometimes defenseless to stop its rude and wicked advances.Adapting and making the proper adjustments to restore the faith and security of a community surely further those causes of purpose and civility. You were an excellent human being, Officer Cook and no doubt with humble ethics, honesty, respect and integrity. Your posts here in Dade County were dignified and left us and your family grappling for answers. Why? Why so young with a beloved wife, a mother you loved and cared for her welfare. Relatives some you knew others as these decades have passed remember you, their "great-uncle Bo." Their hero and mankind's as well. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Heaven is perfect where you can never fear harm while patrolling Our Master's pearly gates of gallantry.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Having the fibers of morals, mettle and excellent character is not just going through the motions. Locomotives charge ahead full steam as you demonstrated, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County and humanity. So endearing, engaging but, most of all honest and to the point. Dignity and integrity expressing their articulations and our harmony and liberty through your heroic life and solemn career of trust, truth and preservation. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Blunder cannot ever be a sign of boldness and neither can disrespect be a symbol of reverence. Your life, Officer Cook, helped you forge ahead on a public service career where integrity and decent character allowed Dade County to be a little freer in their movements. Heroism and faith brought now and forever to Our King's thrones of perfection where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Peril paralyzes society to the point of what one feels when impaled by a sharp object. The humility and sanctity of your honesty, Officer Cook, was supremely heroic and very dignified in that it provided protection to the Dade County community. Nothing will revive you but than again integrity and your thoughtfully trusted and truthful character and loyal commitments won't be forgotten only saluted for valor above and beyond your humane onuses. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 8, 2020

Curiosity circulates while evil percolates. Wickedness perpetrates unbelievable destruction and your heroic and unselfishly honored actions that sad day, Officer Cook, protected, secured and launched some civility and nobility all tranquil within Dade County's borders. Never more dignity, always treasured and loaded with integrity and sound character that led other comrades through peril. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your reverence and heart each supported equal weight in this seemingly unrelenting battle over violence. Our Creator has a shining angel who got it and humanity certainly misses your smile and its humility that bestowed loyalty within your ranks.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2020

Pause and reflect, cause and affect, one can first step back and ponder what is happening in the world this very minute. Then one can jot down a note to remember a saged hero of acumen, awareness and astuteness. What brings about a situation can be many different and diametrical factors that in the final stage bring about great change hopefully for society's version of peace and inspiration, not torment and fear. Dade County was pledged and promised by you, Officer Cook, quiet and stability, you kept your sacred bond of honesty and bravery, what a real gentleman delivers heroically to his neighborhood. Dignity and trust upholding integrity's truth that cut to the heart of your career and humble life all now in eternity where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A man of consideration and character, never contemptous and always contemplating his next logical professional progression.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2020

Courtesy, politeness and appearance make terror take note. What a character, commitment to excellence and convictions of pride andpromise, you made Dade County safer, Officer Cook. No compromising and never running from evil. You stood nose to nose to defend our liberties always honesty, integrity and dignity to be represented forever in the skies above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2020

Curiousness is just what mankind needs. But action is greater than talk and dreaming. No after thoughts. You made a poignant and deliberate decision to become a police officer, Officer Cook. Charming, charismatic and full of good cheer. A hero implanted within our minds who defended Dade County with the utmost in humility, honor and reverence. Dignity and character that put down those foundations where trust and truth merged at those gates of valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 7, 2020

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