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 wheels of honor and humility spin gracefully throughout humanity bringing relief and safety to all citizens. Dade County was your responsibility, Officer Cook, a hero whose steadiness allowed you the chance to save lives while building foundations of character for a sounder future. Dignity and integrity from a man's humble maturity. It will always your love and admiration for your family in and around work, Officer Cook. You were complete with courage and sacred purposes. They were your missions of faith and hope. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 21, 2020

Respect gains its vision for honor's wisdom. Your purposes in life, Officer Cook and during your proven career was to serve with a heart of compassion while providing a sane balance of bravery and boldness. There was no mistaking your sincerest of efforts to calm a violent man who took your life of character away from you and your family to enjoy. The heaven reign supreme with many heroes and heroines who gave the ultimate sacrifice to keep Dade County more secure. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 21, 2020

We cannot always portend what is going to transpire in our world. It's a society at times filled with doubt, violence and disrespect. No matter your heart and very heroic soul, Officer Cook, protected and served the people of Dade County quite nobly. Quite passionately. Very wisely and with great vision and a keen sense of acumen. Your character and faithfulness was all trustworthy and always truthful. You'll be solemnly honored for integrity,honesty and the trains of dignity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 21, 2020

Honesty, dignity and integrity are certainly not contingencies as during those heated and most brutal fights over violence must be utilized to the zenith to create a plan for peace and safety in a community. You fought your utmost, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County with humble, humane and heroic stability, character and a genuine love and admiration for mankind. Today because of your unselfish, unwavering and relentless sacrifice can the citizens of your community that continues honoring your memory and legacy live in freedom a little less since you left this world forty-one years ago. Heaven is humanely enriched by valiant angels whose mortal souls elevate their family's existences as they carry on the values you, Officer Cook, laid down your heart, soul and maturity for. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your respect and resolve has been passed down to other fine menand women for which they honor your uniform of courage and badge of esteemed goodwill.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Tenacity lies in those trenches where courage looks to corner callousness. Mr. Pearsall the evil man who took you from your family and department was a very abrasive fellow, Officer Cook, showing no remorse and obviously no honorable respect towards authority. His actions nearly took other officers, your friends, colleagues and the civilians embroiled in his domestic issues. It took your good natured will so ironclad to attempt to stop him and yet the hero in your heart and soul steered some tranquility into Dade County's various neighborhoods. We keep thinking and dreaming for a light to go on at the end of the tunnel signalling hope. Your special soul of virtue and vision can watch over us as we pray for sanity and civility, the calming affect that carries us forward in our earthly pursuits of happiness and joy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Humanity is steeped in humility so long as the sanctity and integrity of our esteemed public servants is enriched in honesty and in dignity. If you were allowed to have finished your career, Officer Cook, no telling how much better Dade County and its residents would have fared. God only knows. And His compassion has your unselfishly heroic character watching over your family and all of us. This as you walk your proverbially perfect beat without any harm coming your way. Of course we are all so sorry your fate was utterly robbed by violence that you protected us from in a skillful and serene manner. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Violence continues to unnerve, disturb and perturb society and its goals, dreams and aspirations of freedom,unity and stability. The peaceful forces of mother nature spreading her gentle wings against our very hearts and souls. Our doors and windows open to take in the fresh air because of you, Officer Cook, a model officer, honored hero and dedicated crimefighter of the highest degree of scruples, integrity and dignity defending us. We salute your humility and tireless efforts to wrest wickedness away from our land. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

I think I meant to say, Officer Cook, that it must be placed with due respect and diligence which is exactly what Dade County received from a most honorable and heroic gentleman. Cloaks and daggers alone won't get the job done fighting injustice and adversity because honesty and humility will travel further down those trails of character better than anything. Your comrades and family continue your legacy precisely through their sacred and serene nobilites. All your inspirations for us to have peaceful healthy and most blessed paths. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

The other day while waiting on my car to be serviced I took a walk past Fulford Elementary School here in North Miami Beach, FL in Dade County. I believe it was the first school you attended, Officer Cook and I could not help but remembering you and how proud your parents must have been of you their beloved son, "Billy." Somewhere this moment your esteemed soul is patrolling those peaceful gates where gallantry and respect have climbed as high as humility and sacred honor. Their passions and purposes launched your career and furthered your life of dignity and integrity where destiny took your heroi character around those sometimes perilously awful corridors. But, never forgotten. One day when things calm down from this pandemic I've got to place down Lord willing some humble plaque commemorating your heroism. It cannot go with due notice. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Fear unleashes all sorts of chaos in a community. Yet, your heroically honorable actions everyday and that fateful day, Officer Cook, will forever be remembered, embraced and saluted for wonderful service,proud protection and a pride as humble as your big smile. A terrific young man gone too soon way before you could finish your unassuming journeys of justice, truth and peace here in Dade County. Character, desire and determination remain a vital part of your legacy to be solemnly carrie don by colleagues and your family members. Your excellence is their excellence,the hope and prayers of a grateful venue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Engaging, endearing and humbly enhancing, but most of all honesty and effort carried your patrols of peace over Dade County, Officer Cook. A man whose legendary heroism shall be noted and never overlooked. Such fortitude and ferocity all sacrificed for the ultimate goodwill of society. It's heaven where your gentle wings and soul rests forever in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character and bravery that was responsible, practical and morally outstanding. Truth and trust can be hailed in their connections to your battles over evil. Those wars remain and those carrying your mantel must never give up hope nor give in.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Perseverance must not plunge nor truth and trust nosedive into the ground. All noble intentions of humility, sanctity and civility must be allowed to channel their earthly resources into the making of harmony and goodwill in society. Humanity and Dade County all thank you and salute your intuitions, Officer Cook, fabulous and heroic. All tenacity and ferocity trying their utmost to eliminate terror and torment from our midst. Karen knows where your very special soul is right now and forever. She remarried, the folded flag from your casket remains hers to adore and respect. Humbleness is resting in place. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of character, commitment to excellence and convictions to everything transparent that stability and tranquility require.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Each day is a new day and affinity to be demonstrated to all who risk their lives in service to their communities. Boldness,honor and trust are put in danger to faithfully preserve the integrity of life and property. Your humble and heroic badge, Officer Cook, were your bodyguards of strength and courage from your heart in which all Dade County relied upon your virtue and professional prowess. You are certain to be so duly and solemnly honored by all your sisters and brothers of law enforcement who too risk their souls to place peril and wickedness where they rightfully belong. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

While the cannons blaze, bravery invokes. Its signals are those of proper honesty, dignity and the integrity that peace and respect usher in together. Dade County was under your eyes and ears, Officer Cook and your solemn badge and crisply pressed uniform made that telling difference and now decades from when you paid the ultimate price you still continue receiving compliments and thoughtful reflections of your life of sanctity and grace. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You are etched in memorial walls for us to take special notice on your unselfish and unwavering dedication.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Vermin have no virtue. It's found in the decent hearts of honest women and men who fortify their passions with ingenuity and integrity. Your professional dignity, Officer Cook, was most heroic and humble and brought a kindred of faith, hope and resolve to the people of Dade County whom you relished serving. We pray for your soul to be wrapped around Our Creator's palms for eternal safekeeping as you kept us safe and secure. You endeavored to stop a high speed locomotive that day, a callous and evil man who took your life and stole respect and reverence from under your beloved family and comrades. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

Pardon is for the sincerest of repenters.Society has enough on its plates of honor and dignity that straying from integrity and character can make their crucialest of differences between peace and stability or violence and its chaos. You spread your goodwill and hope, Officer Cook, far and wide within the boundaries of Dade County and made a distinctly heroic impression never to be forgotten only championed by those who have succeeded you in bringing truth and trust back to its citizens. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 20, 2020

To be endearing you must be an effective leader able to take instruction and criticism and give heart and hope to others. Listen before you speak. You were composed as you comforted many people during your life and career, Officer Cook. The high beams were always turned up when integrity and dignity followed the paths of perseverance and pride here in Dade County. By virtue of your versatility, Officer Cook, you have become a decorated hero forever to be saluted, etched in your family and peers' heart for sacred, solid and passionately humane service.Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. God needs character as it breeds bravery. Sincerity breeds resolve. It breeds solutions to issues at hand.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

You have to be a united nation to elicit change. Not a country tied together by tyranny and turmoil. First of all, Officer Cook ,you treated all people fairly,equally and gave no special favors to anyone. Faithful, yet firm, fair and trusted, truthful, yet honest. Dade County has honored your heroism that was born of passion, that was conceived in dignity, the integrity with consolidated cooperation that crusaded those boundaries with nothing but boldness and all heart. Your soul may freely fly in heaven's havens of eternal peace for all your unselfish wisdom,maturity and high beamed respect. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Silence maybe golden. If it cannot be heard over prejudice and racism it cords of hope and goodwill are pointless. The coming weeks and months will tell the story.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

Earmarked for eternity are those angels whose esteem and honor rest in peace forever in honored soil. The soil where you toiled vigorously for Dade County to thrive, Officer Cook. The good measures of decency and peace patrolling our every venue, it's what makes a man's humble virtue stand tall and proud. With accentuated character, perpetual commitment, convictions so trustworthy and transparent it's what model individuals are created from. To protect and preserve, to prosper and to be persevering, patience is a loyal virtue rewarded for its acumen and accountable wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

Honesty rests at night to reinvigorate dignity and integrity for the next day's trails of truth and trust. So totally fair and unbiased, that's what you were, Officer Cook and will continually be revered for. Not just rescuing, aiding and helping Dade County citizens over those bumps in the pavements where you too walked and crawled as a youngster along the way. Never forgotten and forever judged as a righteous soul whose distinct intuitions and ingenuity left those impressions to be respectfully for due diligence and virtue of desire. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

Gruesome and ghastly, a most hideous act of evil that police seems to be employing these days which has lead to protests, some peaceful, some out of hand. Dade County knew and saw it all. The entire repertoire of your cunning and resolve, Officer Cook, demonstrating its prowess around the communities here in Dade County. Such an esteemed and a most humanely revered man of God, dignified and faithful in all your pursuits of integrity. You made everyone feel pride and proud of you. Your family most notably and your battling comrades of valor and vision. All class, all inspirations for a safer and more serener future. One that would have made you proud, Officer Cook, your soul is perched high atop looking down. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

Undying love for a job you were so committed to, Officer Cook. Unwavering devotion. Unending courage,honesty and sacrifice. Unrelenting integrity and character. The loss of a hopeful and gallant young man left your family and Dade County shaking and wondering what to make of it. So much left undone and I say that humbly yet so much validated and fruitfully fulfilled. Your life left questions the answers to your marvelous mettle and heroically are obvious. Just a cherished and well mannered gentleman of faith not fiction. Fallacy and fantasy trap us into believing in whatever.Just a brilliant career polished and professional, pristine and prudent. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Justice was served to the heinous man who took you from your beloved and adored family and bravely esteemed colleagues.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

Talent alone cannot sway that pendulum. The clock keeps ticking and somehow honest men and women must delve and dive right into the fracas and stop this mess we brand as violence. You tried very much, Officer Cook ,to stop this man employing whatever was ethical, legal and by the book. Dade County folks will always respect you those alive now who remembered your mortal soul digging and reaching for some balance of peace and unity for all. It's clear that your character, pride and commitments have been transferred back to heaven to serve a more humble cause. Walk along God's gates of perfect justice in gentleness as your soul passes each revered angel of heroic endeavor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

A hearty smile, a laugh something to break up the sadness. No matter the grief and anger will remain. Just cannot get over why God took you, Officer Cook at such a tender young age with more to fulfill on the horizon. Accomplishment and morals, respect and politeness, common sense,courtesies all extended to mankind and to the residents of Dade County whom you loyally served and aided when they called. A man of honor whose wisdom and integrity are his valor and rewards from heaven. A sacrifice so ultimate,so humane and so morally purposeful. Deceit is worse than vain. Vigilance is conceived in those whose truth and trust upholds the law. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

A mechanic may strip a car down and put it back together. Not so when a human life is suddenly taken by vicious and serious evil. Your life, Officer Cook, was filled with so many wonderful times and now your career all taken by a coward and callous man at age twenty-five can never be brought back. Your duly honored soul comported with character, respect and dignity cannot ever be here to enjoy a peaceful and wonderful marriage to Karen and to see your healthy and happy family members prosper and succeed in their chosen ambitions. All halted by someone with no class, integrity and proper character. Your values have been praised and rewarded by Our Master who watches over His most cherished souls of heroism and sacred causes. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Dade County was where you were raised and taken to a higher eternal calling for crusaders of trust and justice, the truth sets all pious souls free while the wicked await their ultimate punishment by the heavenly tribunal.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 19, 2020

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