Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
A uniquely humble and heroically blessed gentleman of gallantry, virtue, character and honesty who served his Dade County community with every fiber of his unselfish and unwavering heart, soul and spirit. You can be sure, Officer Cook, that your name and legacy of both integrity and dignity stands tall and proud. The evil and violence that still permeates in society must once and for all be obliterated and your sacred endeavors, Officer Cook, served as a guiding light of hope, faithfulness and goodwill. An angel who will not be forgotten by your family, friends and colleagues who salute your bravery and versatility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 5, 2025
A day of reckoning will arrive and with it comes many moments in the lives of both heroes and heroines who fought those heated wars and battles over adversity and evil. You gave the honorable sacrifice, Officer Cook, which has assisted Dade County and society greatly. As you were a man of humbly blessed stature who stood proud to become a legend of a gentleman. Dignity, integrity and cherished character all working within the borders of your sacred and solemn commitments and convictions to ward off violence. Our blessed peace, quietness and stability within our castles came about because of your due vigilance, loyal diligence and unwavering and unselfish heart, soul and spirit which patrols the gates of heaven where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel with perfectly fitted angels' wings.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 4, 2025
The gift of life is to be appreciated and never to be taken for granted. Police service is solemnly given back to humanity where you worked and protected Dade County, Officer Cook. A hero forever who was and is esteemed, loyal and most compassionate about the endeavors you put forth everyday. Never forgotten and always well maintained in integrity, dignity and character so well composed. So trusted and truthfully dedicated and devoted to the causes of giving back serenity, safety and security to your community where your name and legend will continue being saluted for everything in the words of vision, versatility and angelic virtue. The wings you were given forty-six years ago have kept your diligent and unselfish heart, soul and spirit soaring each second. A precious man and a special life constantly paid homage for your sacrifice. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 3, 2025
For a heroically humble and blessed man of character and dedication, Officer Cook, you displayed the tools of honor, integrity and dignity which only uplifted Dade County in accentuated peace, stability and the means of serenity to keep going onward with our lives. Your life and career though cut way too soon by violence have been duly and solemnly remembered and saluted for virtue, versatility and wisdom beyond your years of unselfish truth, faithfulness and trustworthiness. Every ounce of effort was channeled into making mankind the way it should be and your legacy of excellence, commitment and conviction remain loyal and treasured as you rest in peace my neighbor, angel, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 3, 2025
An angel of heroic heart and unselfish care and compassion that served Dade County as you, Officer Cook, provided stability and freedom for all mankind. Your character, charm and commitment all loyal and truly trustworthy just as your honesty, integrity and dignity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. We salute your life and career of sacred nobility, versatility and responsibility.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 2, 2025
A real hero of heart, soul, politeness and character, Officer Cook, always loyally patrolling for liberty here in Dade County and its was where you started out as a public service officer. The academy challenges even the most sophisticated and articulate of men and women who strive to reach newer heights within mankind's boundaries. Faith and devotion cannot ever be sheered from integrity, decency and dignity all of which fortified your truthfully trustworthy journeys throughout your beloved community that still remembers and salutes a fine young man raised with commitment and an unwavering and unyielding heart and soul of unselfish diligence. These are a vibrant portion of your name and legacy stored and sealed within your department. Go down one day to the Main Headquarters and you find forty-three other brave and honorable heroes and heroines who made the ultimate sacrifice for peace, safety and stability that your family, Officer Cook, carries with them in their daily lives and safeguards your wisdom, vision and vehicles of virtue, visibility and courage. Forever an angel blessed by Our Lord who shelters your spirit as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of inspiration, determination and steadfast dedication.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 1, 2025
Poised and prepared, all public servants must share in these dangerous responsibilities of fighting evil and violence which seems never ending. Here in Dade County you fought for the folks and defended their rights and freedoms to live normally, Officer Cook and because of having honesty, dignity and everything found in a hero's unselfish and unwavering heart and soul may you be remembered and solemnly saluted for virtue and character. It's men like yourself who faced commitment and conviction with true trust and allegiance never waving a white flag as you battled until the end with guidance from God, paths and trails paved with humility all blessed and nurtured by your daily earthly missions of sacrifice, faithfulness and goodwill all loyal, esteemed and angelically cherished forever. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 1, 2025
A gentleman recognized for having honesty, bravery and the definitions of dignity, integrity and valiant character who preserved the quality of life here in Dade County. Your humble heart and heroic soul, Officer Cook, provided all that was known regarding a superior public servant with talent and tenacity all leading true trustworthiness down the righteous paths and trails of fortitude, virtue and esteem. Loyalty and humbleness characterized your life and all too short of a career in which you should have lived a healthy retirement with Karen. May you rest in peace my neighbor, angel, friend and hero. Morals, scruples and principles are your legacy of which your adored family carries your blessed name and spirit forward. A sound mind and unselfish soul did their outstanding jobs daily during your sacred pilgrimages around your community.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 30, 2025
The cycle of commitment, conviction and character can never grow old and stale. For each day it must be refined, refreshing and most notably resilient. Yours was, Officer Cook, just as your honesty, integrity and dignity which served and protected the residents of Dade County without any shadow of hesitation or doubt. You delivered peace and stability upon your esteemed, loyal and solemn words of affirmation and appreciation. We salute you for having true allegience, diligence and vigilance. Virtue that was humble and blessed. Vision so clear and wisdom valued and cherished beyond your young life. The angel wings you were given fit perfectly as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A true leader whose trails and paths of proficiency and perseverance were always unwavering and unselfish. A humble heart and soul of nobility and sacred versatility always doing what was proper to handle or diffuse any given situation.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 29, 2025
Embellish upon the positive. For dwelling on the negative can only lower the esteem of mankind. You dealt with virtually every situation and crisis during your career and solemn life of piety and reverence, Officer Cook. That is why heroes are precisely who they are, angels who will forevermore be remembered, honored and saluted for gallantry, virtue, wisdom and vision. You secured the boundaries of Dade County with every unselfish ounce of your heart, soul and dignified integrity and unassuming character all advanced because of your maturity beyond your twenty-five years. Though you were taken too young, your family and friends, colleagues from the past never will forget the smile and handsome face of intelligence, ingenuity, truth and faithful trustworthiness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 28, 2025
A community is supposed to care about its own. Dade County as diverse an area as there is does support its own and those brave women and men who protect and serve mankind, society and humanity with compassion, concern and careful orchestration of everything in their arsenals of honesty, dignity and integrity. You championed the causes, Officer Cook, as an unselfish and fiercely unwavering servant must. With character, commitment and sincere conviction it uplifted your virtue, vision and wisdom all beyond your young life. You remain cherished and forever a man of loyal support and uplifting those in need of comfort. May your angel wings keep you soaring higher as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Truly a gentleman who provided trustworthiness in all your diligent paths and trails where justice was served.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 27, 2025
Forty-five years ago my dad who was a New York City police officer passed. Just wished our families had met. Officer Cook, your life and police career was sadly cut way too short. But, Dade County was the community where you protected us and gave us peace, stability and safety for our travels to continue. A gentleman of honor, humility and the dignity that character and integrity bring. The essence of esteem, the learning of loyalty and the courage of a man of commitment and conviction, may the angel wings carry you higher and higher as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 26, 2025
Things just rotate and revolve. The life of a duly heroic young man who served Dade County with pride, heart and a humbly blessed soul and whose virtue, character, wisdom and dignified integrity will forevermore be honored and saluted. Your genes, Officer Cook, were surely esteemed and loyal and society won't forget you as you walk your eternal beat above. Perseverance and unselfishness all stemmed the tide of terror and violence and believe me on May 16, 1979 that date will forever rest in your family aspirations and life purposes as they take hold of your legacy going forward. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend, angel and hero. Truth and trust along with morals, values and scruples highlighted your life and professional public service career of justice and vision.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 26, 2025
A man of heroic angel of honesty, humility, heart and soul all unselfish in serving the people of Dade County and you, Officer Cook, were dignified and a man of integrity, character and true and trusted commitment to excellence. May Our Lord bless you as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Peace and serenity are many things you certainly can be remembered for. Saluted and paid respects for virtue and sacred missions put forth always cherished.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 25, 2025
What swirls around society is a violent whirlpool of wicked and wanton evil. Wickedness that good citizens such as yourself, Officer Cook, had to devoutly occupy your watches with. In other words, Dade County had your undivided attention to all details of a job that rewards those who are honest, loyal and dignified with integrity. You can be anything and everything but one thing you sure as today is April 24, 2025 better be a man or woman of your solemn and most sacred affirmation living your life and public service career as more than being noble, capable and duly concerned because humanity rests its tiredness upon your broadest of shoulders and you, Officer Cook, will forever be remembered as a hero who enriched, enhanced and uplifted society beyond its wildest of expectations. A man of resiliency and faithfulness who spoke the truth and was trustworthy within every facet of your life of twenty-five all too short years. May Our Creator watch over your heart, soul and spirit as you angelically rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. It is with commitment, fortitude and ingenuity that the arduous tasks and assignments can be properly carried out as your family carries the torch of your legacy and name forward in their life ambitions, aspirations and the clarity that is clearly refined. Our safety, peace and humane serenity were brokered by your patrols over a community where you're treasured, beloved and esteemed. You made the ultimate sacrifice for mankind to prosper and grow sad you were robbed of living the golden years of retirement with your beloved wife, Karen who you would have been married to for fifty years of health. bliss and fruitful happiness.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 24, 2025
A wise man or woman knows when to speak and when to act properly as you always conducted your professional affairs, Officer Cook, with clarity, insightfulness and a sensitivity that Dade County folks have never forgotten. Wisdom, knowledge and a passion to pursue crime and violence while maintaining law and order on the streets and that was with character, commitment and conviction only truthful and trusted. Dignity and integrity that dedicated itself to conducting its business within the law its eyes always upon those who were cherished, esteemed and loyal to the performances of duty and responsibility. Your unselfish and unrelenting sacred versatility, capability will always be saluted for virtue, vision and your heart of sanctity, humility and the efficiency you gave every watch and those who have taken your watch remain vigilant to the calls of onus. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, your beloved family's angel and the nicest of people who donned a uniform of understanding to conquer what continues ailing our world. Keep looking down from above as your walk your perfect beat. You will forever be missed that's for sure. Trails and paths blazed for others to follow with erudition and the same zeal that was tenacity multiplied.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 24, 2025
Yearning to learn, striving to achieve, having a both blessed and heroic heart and soul that served and protected Dade County with unselfish loyalty and courage, says plenty regarding the man, the gentleman you will always be saluted and remembered for, Officer Cook. An inspiring angel to your family, comrades and host of friends who knew one angel of a man. A man built in character and accentuated in honesty, integrity and the commitment of truly trustworthy integrity. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 24, 2025
Officer Cook, you were by a nature a humble man so blessed with esteem and loyalty to your family, department and respectful community. A gentleman brave and honest and one whose dignity and integrity of character, true trust and commitment fortified mankind always to be solemnly saluted for virtue and wisdom. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and angelic hero. Your convictions and aspirations laid the future paths and trails for others to follow in.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 23, 2025
The Pope passed on Sunday morning after being ill for sometime. Everyone prays for the resurrection of his soul. Your family prays for the heroic heart and soul you were given by Our Creator. They served and protected Dade County and its residents with every morsel, every ounce of strength blessed and humbly saluted for having the unselfish integrity,dignity and character that sacrificed for our very serenity and safe trails of true peace and trustworthy esteem for mankind to go forward with its purposes and aspirations. You will always be solemnly remembered for virtue, wisdom and the fortitude found in your unwavering tenacity as an angel. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Every measure to preserve the quality of humanity you undertook on May 16,1979 and each second of your precious and special life and career as a duly ordained public servant.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 22, 2025
Vital vigilance is as essential as dignified diligence. A man decorated in integrity and honesty everyday, Officer Cook, they were partners of loyalty to a very treasured gentleman. Dade County was a community blessed and supported by your journeys and missions of earthly proportions. You won't ever be forgotten doing yeoman service that created an atmosphere of peace and liberty among the people. We salute you for virtue, vision and all the versatility that wisdom rings in. Truth, faith and resiliency were all trusted as your hunts for peace, goodwill and justice were totally unselfish and unwavering. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel who stood for right and never let his family and comrades down.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 21, 2025
To all who bare their brave and heroic hearts and souls may you all receive God's humble honored blessings for your solemn service on behalf of mankind. Humanity is in indebted to you as are your communities where dignity, character ans integrity helped restore peace instead of violence and evil perpetrating their accentuated meaness. You protected the good citizens of Dade County, Officer Cook, with an extra special compassion, intensed decency and a dedication that rose beyond youe earthly responsibilities. You shared in our purposes and peaceful movements going forward and it's forever been a shame and tragedy that Mr.Pearsall robbed you of your sacred rights to freedom and to live beyond retirement. Truth, faith and the essential resourcefulness that marked your pilgrimages and journeys on behalf of us. Serenity, safety and security should never exact any toll or loss your sacrifice, Officer Cook and your badge of virtue, leadership and wisdom, #1664 spelled out respect among your peers of whom you were very loyal to. Vigilant and diligent forevermore saluted and humbly remembered and blessed as an angel from above where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Commitment and convictions all first rate and first class never giving anything less for the sake of heaven.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 21, 2025
We hope the Tidwell and Wilkerson's have a happy Easter and your name, heroic dignity, integrity and honor are always etched within their hearts and souls for your heroic life and career blessings and serving the good folks of Dade County with peace and cherished stability and safety. Officer Cook, you were unselfish and unrelenting in patrolling your beloved community and for having upstanding and outstanding character, commitment and the trust and true convictions may your angelic spirit rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. We salute your virtue, vision and wisom are vitally important in a life filled with sacred and humble tenacity, fortitude and ambition.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 20, 2025
Your life and heroically humble, loyal and esteemed professional career, Officer Cook, ended way too soon an dthough you served Dade County with excellence, pride and heart and soul you'll forever be anglically saluted for being honorable, dignified and a man of faith, devotion and character. True and trustworthy commitment and convictions all clearly marked during your sacred of missions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 19, 2025
Where are we today? Are we better off now or when you protected Dade County Officer Cook? The answers could be baffling. Peace and tranquility still at times lag behind but you only gave your one hundred percent effort daily. Our stability and serenity all came because of your unselfish heroism and humble blessings God bestowed upon your heart and soul. A human being with complete dignity, character and integrity striving to give his all in commitment and dedicated convictions the true and trusted servant full of vim, vigor andunwavering virtue, sacred versatility and important diligence and vigilance from a wise and noble warrior now one of Our Creator's many heroic angels patrolling the gates and streets above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Loyalty, esteem and intuition all outstanding.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 18, 2025
Life pursuits are what our lives are about. Your career and heroic life, Officer Cook, spelled out the essentials of why peace, stability and safety are needed for mankind to survive and to thrive. A man's faith, devotion and honesty all meshed well with character, dignity and integrity made Dade County well served and you'll always be remembered and saluted for virtue, vision and wisdom true and trustworthy beyond your years. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
April 18, 2025

