Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

The cowards are conceited in disrespect. The brave angels are constructed in humility, honesty and dignity. All the resourceful character, the staunch convictions and the most ethical of commitments to virtue, principles and valuable scruples that assisted you, Officer Cook,in your heroic defense of Dade County. Society,mankind and humanity can take solace and comfort in knowing you shared and were the consummate loyalist to your partners and colleagues from within the Central Division. All the admiration, esteemed dedication and devout determination to see peace and harmony through. A wonderful life and a career too bound for more. Our Creator decided He needed your versatile soul at His sides to patrol above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Adversity builds character. Character and commitment build strength. Honor and integrity build the beginning of dignity. Dade County with its array of venues,corners and buildings was forever enhanced by your love and esteemed admiration for loyal and competent professional service, Officer Cook. Treasured and respectful, a mind that was wise beyond its years and a heart and eyes so visionary. Evil painted you and your comrades of bravery into a corner that day and the ending was not what your family wanted to hear. sadly, they and your community and comrades lost a most deserving officer recognized for vitality, versatility and bringing virtuous serenity to a neighborhood where you were summoned to God's arms of compassion. To be held and cradled with bundles of angelic love for your ultimate sacrifice. Rest in peace my neighbor,friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

A stack of pancakes in syrup and butter sure tastes great. A better taste is honor,integrity and dignity serving up its pitches to defeat mayhem,chaos and colossal misfortune on those sometimes dangerous roads. Your job was made a bit more uneasy, Officer Cook, that somber and awful day when evil ripped your family's hearts out of their chests. Yours was taken by a man just so cowardly and gutless,no respect or character. Dade County has not overlooked nor forgotten its hero of humility whose reservoirs of faith and hope still funnel their ways into society. A meal such as what I started my reflection with may provide one with endurance and ample nourishment for a while, the rest is in the mind and body. The skies above do have a top notch servant willing to do whatever it took to get things done right the first time around. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Day and night you were reverent, highly admired and fiercely loyal to the community. A promise never broken only those hearts and souls who lost a greatly gallant man of God whose devoted his learning and might to spreading the golden message.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

A durable public servant is more reliable than a disrespected man or woman who does not hold honor humbly. Thank God in the eyes of all your family, professional colleagues and esteemed friends, Officer Cook, you were cherished, loyal and held in high regards. Every individual born into this world has the same chances of success as anybody else. Since you were a young man your dreams, desires and aspirational goals were to become a policeman. Dade County was the place where the genesis of your career, dignified and heroic took shape. Your life should not have been concluded by one's direct assaults against authority. God, your family and comrades have humbly saluted your careful character, concerned commitment to pride and excellence and noble convictions all geared toward righting a ship that needed uplifting. Whatever cell of peace and good grace we have is attributed to you, Officer Cook, forever a savior and a hero whose good soul was uplifted to heaven to serve an even more important role. To walk your proverbial beat watching over His sacred and pearly gates filled with heavenly angels. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Virtue and visibility can do more than just battle adversity. Your fights,wars and battles were diligent and most vigilant and never to be forgotten.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Gossip is like a panhandler yearning for attention. Its lies and deceit threaten to blow holes in our society. It disturbs the peace process and further erodes goodwill,faith and hope that mankind seeks in their security. You were the consummate safety shield and blanket to all citizens in Dade County, Officer Cook. Never a higher degree of dignity and never more integrity and distinguished honesty on your radar screens of justice, resolve and respect. You gave your life and career my neighbor, friend and hero paying the ultimate price there is to have a reasonable validity as to why we treasure tranquility and its affections. God's domain awaits those brave and bold so gallant to see through their missions of resourcefulness accomplished. You were vibrant, young and still had plenty of tread left on those wheels of welcome tenacity. Rest in peace. One day I have got to get hold of Officers Piloto and Jackson who knew you and worked with you. Officer David Graveline who you worked with I believe he left or retired from policing and works out west on Serius radio. He used to work at the old WCIX channel 6 station on Brickell Avenue in Miami down the block from the old WGBS 710 AM radio station.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

A generation of grateful folks will certainly remember your honorable loyalty, dignified virtue and impressionable integrity, dignity and character all respect being paid to you, Officer Cook. Heroic actions undertaken to preserve the quality of life and to enhance the operational safety and security of Dade County. Memories last forever as does one's revered and esteemed morals and mettle. Physically you are in heaven where your beloved and admired soul rests in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You took advantage of opportunities when circumstances presented themselves to make a better for you and Karen and to continue looking after your adored mother,Mrs.Julia Cook,bless her heart and may you and Mr. Cook rest in glorious peace. What a son you both raised ! A real tragedy a violent man took him away from you and his beloved family and brave peers of truth and trust. He was your "Billy" so strong and valiant.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

A heartwarming life of humility only displays the loyalty you demonstrated to Dade County, Officer Cook, our friend, our hero, our gentleman of integrity and dignity. It was with total dedication and respectful character that collated peace and stability within a region where your sacrifice has stood all these decades later as a cornerstone of faith,fruition and where ferocity belonged in heroism. Violence and turmoil demand humble resolve, the received their more than fair share of serious trust and truth validated and bonded together as their unification. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. God's glorious arms of compassion open wide to welcome heroines and heroes whose destinies have been justly and vitally rewarded and blessed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

A good man with a good name is worth more than any bobbles or money. Your blessed and heroically cherished name, Officer Cook,lives on forever in the hearts and minds of all Dade County. Serving your department with focused dependability and the elastics of effort,energy and efficiency you are sure to be etched poignantly in your family's hearts where your respect and resilience has long stood the tests of time. Time keeps on moving forward, it never goes back only to revere the warmest of a life and spirit departing this world all too soon because of evil. Bravery and trust to be truthfully remembered. Character to be celebrated and enhanced forever. We enlighten one another with some renewed piece of harmony and stability, humility that came from your sacred heart, Officer Cook. A badge and uniform worn with humble pride and recognition. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Everyday you would want your family to go forth with their lives of honor and grace as you so solemnly did overcoming whatever lies in front of them. Heaven and your soul will help clear the pathways to proceed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Round and round the carousel goes and where it stops nobody knows. Truth, trust and faith all,honest, all dignity, virtual integrity. Your soul and heart, Officer Cook, were always affixed in the right directions of Dade County to make known that heroic difference which you imparted upon humanity. Heroes and heroines don't just pop up in the thin air. There is a reason plausible and proof positive of their value and versatility. You are to be commended for your undying,unselfish and most humanely unwavering efforts to remove the obstacles that violence places in society making happiness and safe havens more real. Uplifting and upbeat, we won't forget you, Officer Cook,as you brought the residents their everlasting calm and cool. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Generosity galvanizes a community while violence and torment can cause polarization that can pollute and make peace quite toxic. Your trails and paths, Officer Cook, were lined with honest and heroic distinction to make fighting evil more efficient. Never a moment or time or worrying about you. You took on the responsibility of leadership based on the facts of your dignified life and career choice of respect, resolution and unassuming adherence to the highest level of professional conduct becoming a Dade County law enforcement person. You'll surely never be forgotten, overlooked or anything that would disrespect nor tarnish your stellar and stoic reputation to persevere where others may not have accomplished. God takes care of your sweet soul of direction and foundation as it watches over your family and community. To carry forth a hero's exemplary work ethics is never easy. Bravery and honor all take discipline. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Integrity and character top notch. Heaven is that locale where perfection travels wherever its proverbial proficiency is called for.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Before the roof top blows it's best to make sure the foundation is nailed in place. Long before you made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of Dade County, Officer Cook, there was that steady stream of honor and respect flowing down the rivers of fighting resolve to make peace, unity and liberty a more senseful notion wisdom that you solemnly possessed. Never more mindful and focused on all your heroic chores and challenges as they tapped into your heart of caring and giving back. God gives and God takes yet we must stay on course and as your family is aware of keep your memories flowing forward, it's what you would have wanted as you are firmly and warmly enriched within their hearts and minds. Your soul did its years of toil and training for this day when you set forth to become a police officer and an excellent one at that endearing and uniquely remembered for valor and virtue. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Condolences last for a lifetime. Grieving lasts for as long as a family feeds the essential needs to mourn for their brave and honored loved one. Your family and department, Officer Cook, mourned and paid their respects to your family giving you the highest honors a police hero could have. Integrity,character and dignity were all paid a hero's farewell that Saturday May 19, 1979 at the Cathedral of Saint Mary's in Miami near where you gave your twenty-five years, six spent toiling for evil and feverishly searching for a grain, or morsel of mettle and stabilizing harmony. Nothing comes easy. Nothing is mundane. Nothing is routine. Resolve, resiliency and reverence all come with an ultimate goal, the sacrifice you made won't be forgotten Officer Cook. Your family, colleagues and friends promised your soul and family that much. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Violence is that bed of nails no one looks forward to lying down in. Never ending evil that must be put down immediately and without fail. You were successful during your life and police career, Officer Cook, because of precision honesty, pinpoint dignity and integrity always so refined and down to earth. A smile is a simple thing, saving and protecting Dade County took nerves of steel to juggle all your responsibilities. Accountability, reliability, durability and versatility all because of your proper manners and principles you lived by and carried through each second of your heroic watch. One always to be revered and etched upon the hearts of your family, comrades and close knit group of friends. Everybody decent and first class like tenacity and unrelenting bravery and boldness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. badge#1664 will forever live on in spirit never tarnished only shined and polished so Our Lord can properly bestow His blessings and rewards upon your immortal soul of distinction.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Sanctity, serenity, security and safety all take sacrifice and a caring heart of gold. Honesty is shined and polished. Dignity is shaped and engrained. Integrity is articulated and incorporated into one's humble pursuits and labors of love. Dade County was your zone, Officer Cook, where zeal and zest went toe to toe with danger and peril. No doubt your humility and humbly respectful character was dispatched many times over to a scene where your calming manner and voice of wisdom,reason,vision and concern stirred its wave of resolve around looking for a solution. The hero in you, Officer Cook, shall never be forgotten, for you were fearless and determined. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

The brotherhood of society is served noticeably better when proper etiquette, manners and morals nestle together to form a strong punch for honor, integrity and dignity to work their way through. God directed and steered your drives of desire,devotion and decency around Dade County, Officer Cook and forty-one years later your unselfish and tireless sacrifices to enrich mankind have not been broken nor overlooked. Heroism is not some lightweight to be thrown around the corner, it is a human tool to be purposefully developed and utilized to lessen evil and its affects. Your years and life both as a private citizen and as a public servant for Dade County, Officer Cook, have all been counted,tabulated and responsibly accounted for. Instrumental truth and assertive trust all gained some steam as you approached situations and circumstances where esteemed character and loyal convictions were called upon to act. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A spirited young man hailed and heralded as a warrior forevermore.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Flattery is not a part of the fraternity. Ferocity and excellent instincts of honesty, integrity and dignity surely assist one's battles over violence. Such shameless crime committed against the goodwill,faith and hope that all humanity will certainly cherish. Dade County treasured you, Officer Cook, a hero with a resolution to see things through. Your earthly missions of character, respect and enhancement have all been duly saluted as Our Maker has taken your journeys fruitful and sincere to His castles of courage high a top our world. Eternity is where angels of valor walk those pearly beats patrolling His sacred gates of gallantry and humane gumption. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 30, 2020

Objectivity must be employed when investigating any crime, the importance of honor, truth and trust while obtaining justice for all mankind is essential. And you were a fair and dignified public servant, Officer Cook. Dade County's population relied upon your every basic instinct to pull them through the toughest of times where tension and unrest filled the air. Serenity and a sense of harmony filtered in because you cared and were a benevolent gentleman. The class of character and dedication driving through the walls of wickedness to broker better relationships. Your heroism built a legacy where its finest foundations have been placed down forever to be shared and explored. Information always top notch and humility always to be treasured. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

Agility is a great tool to have. A resource more valued than ever when one needs to fight evil and its adversities of violence, terror and torment. Your capacities, Officer Cook,to be vigilant and so versatile were why you were so heroically virtuous in Dade County. A mainstay whose humbly sole purpose was to calm and restore peace while handling the dangerous assignments,tasks and roles with evil. Justice must be quick and stern, it must also involve truthfulness, trust and public's acceptance. Your character, dignity and intellectual integrity have been so saluted and honored, Officer Cook, for digging in. Now Our Creator has allowed your venerable soul to soar higher with your perfectly fitted angels wings. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You deserved more, Officer Cook, you brought courage and hope to many. God if only you could have retired after serving with humane authority,leadership and determined motivation. God steers our fates, destinies and even happiest of voyages. Always solemnly remembered!

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

One man's turpitude robbed society of your attitude of wisdom and maturity, a fortitude of ferocity wrapped around tenacity and honesty. His violence that day in Dade County, such wanton treachery set off a chain of events so catastrophic that even you, Officer Cook and your colleagues had a most difficult time dealing with. Your very last call, your very last ounce of energy left out on the streets for all to witness. One brave young man's fight over utter adversity, such galling events. But, your character, dignity and integrity all respected and sacred giving their live for us to remain focused on living our everyday lives. Achievement, accomplishment and guided successes all directed by Our Lord alone who steered your pathways in life until He took you and your humane soul home to rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The pain, grief, anguish and hurt, your family, comrades friends and the entire nation felt utter shock over such barbaric and disrespectful actions by Mr.Pearsall who got his punishment and is rotting in purgatory. The heat there sir gets turned up plenty for what you did to Officer Cook,a fine man, his parents and sister's loved one just trying to calm you down and get you to give up before worse problems happened which they did. Your blessed name, Officer Cook, is the epitome of virtue and efficient endeavor never less. Keep looking down on us.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

You were a very prodigious man, Officer Cook. Destiny and a love of mankind united yourself and your heart with the awesome responsibilities that come with serving the public. With a sacred trust and lips so true, you began your heroic climbs in Dade County serving a community you called home. An area where you were educated and married to a wonderful woman in Karen. Everything looking great, a happy home, a smile, family that still and forever loves you, adores you and misses you just so terribly. But, they can remember their"Uncle Bo," as a dignified man, a gentleman with a soft soul and integrity flowing from your bloodlines. Always and only the highest degree of respect for humanity, now that's humility, nobility all communicating. Never again sadly will we see you, you are heaven's gift and God absolutely watches over His heroes and heroines 24-7. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A ledger of accomplishment that God opens with mercy and blesses those who perform the purposes of His goodwill and faith.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

You can be terse in a humble and constructive pattern. Your life was dictated by love and respect from your own home, Officer Cook, where manners, politeness and courtesy was taught not drilled into your brain. Your devout and beloved mother and father, may they both rest in peace raised both you and your big sister, Nancy, with an honored system that took in dignity, character and all the integrity that ingenuity,intuition and intelligence can ratchet up. You were a solid man, a gifted public servant who gained the support and trust of an entire community. The gates of heaven opened warmly and most compassionately to receive your adored and resourceful soul of esteem that day and forevermore. No sacrifice goes without a reflection and certainly your good name, heroic and resolute shall remain respected for others to read about. To share pertinent information that will assist them during their battles with adversity. Dade County proudly honors your memory and legacy, Officer Cook. God bless you my neighbor, friend and hero. Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

Candles flicker. The light of your refined and most humbly respected soul of heroism will never go out Officer Cook. Everyday of your life and career was embellished and enhanced based on your devout and just beliefs. Mankind lives on because of you and your textures of honor, integrity and dignity. All distributed within the inner walls and streets of Dade County,loyally, trusted and in a truthful manner to bring something we all crave, peace, stability and the warm welcome relief of civility. All public servants cast their nets out looking for violence to eliminate from society and that somber afternoon near the end of your shift you encountered a pure villain, vile and totally disrespectful . Yet according to the law you did all you could to make him surrender. That did not occur, the rest of history will rightfully reveal a man cherished by his family, revered by his colleagues and one to make his friends smile, laugh and remember your personality. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

Humility is hardly heard, not a peep or even an echo. It should be held from within one's heart of honesty and vigilance. You delivered the goods of goodwill and gallantry straight to Dade County and its residents, Officer Cook. Held in esteem for compassion, devotion and steady dedication. Police work extrapolates honesty and wisdom, yours, Officer Cook, was respect, character and maturity way beyond your young life. What a crying tragedy. A beautiful soul taken much too soon with journeys surely ahead. A part of your legacy is entrenched within the happiness, good health and peaceful lives of your loved ones. They have not forgotten and for that matter neither shall we the regular citizen. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

Practical and most pragmatic. Proficiency and pride are two distinctly separate things. Of course, Officer Cook, your honorable heroics helped to save face in Dade County not only on May 16, 1979, everyday day of your humble life and career of valor was dignity and integrity poured into the sweat and toil of unselfish tenacity. You were faced with a most serious issue and your outstanding actions won't be forgotten. Belief in character, concealed in commitment to excelling and never failing, surely your worthy convictions have been most rewarded and blessed by God who fits His angels wings perfectly around His flock who serves and makes the ultimate and undying sacrifice to build cornerstones around the structures of mankind forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020

A very acerbic man took your life and nearly those of your faithful comrades, Officer Cook. He was embroiled in a very nasty domestic dispute with his girlfriend and you answered that call in Liberty City that day, fateful and terrible for your family. You were not required to answer that call, duty and stability beckoned you and Reserve Officer Lincoln. All your heart of honor, resolve and respect was centered in your labors of integrity and dignity to support the pillows of perseverance on behalf of Dade County. Humanity treasures those who sacrifice to further the hope and esteemed goodwill of mankind. Always diligently saluted and paid poignant homage for humbleness so wise. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 29, 2020