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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

Everything in life can be a challenge and those who overcome these crucial moments chances are will succeed in their life efforts. Dade County will be indebted to you forevermore, Officer Cook, you are their hero and of course your family's. Such a distinguished young man who sacrificed every bone in his young body, every ounce of dignity, every breath of integrity, every energetic honesty given to provide us with peace, safety and channeled prosperity never more bold, loyal and totally unselfish and most blessed for its valid heroism to be saluted and never overlooked. You resolved danger. You answered the calls of duty and were accentuated in all you pursued in life and during your police career cut short way too soon because of evil. The

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 17, 2025

Life is experiences beyond our wildest dreams and expectations. No one ever expected this outcome, Officer Cook, of you not being here today to live and to thrive in a beautiful marriage with your beloved Karen. Your family has continued your inspirational fortitudes going forward enlarging your heroic legacy stamped in honest and sincere loyalty, esteem and regards. And Dade County folks have a semblance of peace and prosperity thanks to your sacrifice of character, truth and the trustworthiness of character, dignity and integrity. It protected us and served you well during your vitally important six years of treasured service to mankind. A man blessed with an abundance of heart and soul so very determined and faithfully compassionate while patrolling your community for a relevance of goodwill, hope and dedication. Badge#1664 will always be saluted and paid angelic homage for rescuing the citizens and your humbly heroic comrades from danger, peril and grief beyond anyone's eyes and ears. You spoke gently and stayed as calm as any man of woman of unselfish and unwavering reverence, diligence and vigilance must. Keep watching over your adored family as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 17, 2025

A wonderful young man that you will always be heroically saluted and remembered for, Officer Cook. Just really sad we could not have ever met and broken bread together as friends. But, Dade County, your department and family will never ever forget the engaging gentleman of faith, character and moral values that enhanced your life and career though dangerous you lived with an unselfish heart and soul of decency, desire and pure dedication to serving and protecting us and our safe trails and paths. It's honesty, dignity and integrity being those three excellent and enriching insurance policies that govern our purposes and aspirational dreams. Your accomplishments and success were summoned to heaven where for the last forty-six years you have walked that beat of perfection blessed with scrupulous humility and loyalty. The esteem and commitment, convictions always true and trustworthy were crystal clear just as your eagle eyes, virtue and wisdom beyond your twenty-five years the good Lord allowed you to live and to thrive until that tragic day of May 16, 1979 when violence robbed you of continuing to see your missions and journeys of faith and effort through until retirement. Forever a beloved and humanely purposeful angel, rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 17, 2025

The trails and paths you blazed, Officer Cook, will always be noted and surely remembered because of the type of man, a professional public servant who cared greatly for your community of Dade County where you served, protected and defended the people from evil and wanton violence. Forever a warrior of loyalty, honesty and the character of both dignity and integrity. You will be saluted for virtue, valor and versatility all so visual and so wise precisely beyond your years. Faith tells us God puts us in different situations in which we must solve and endeavor to figure out solutions to perilous dilemmas of which you dealt with. By having commitment and convictions all truly trusted and by being duly diligent, unselfishly unwavering, concerned and compassionate we can comprehend why the angel in you will always look over your family from above as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 16, 2025

Police may not literally move mountains. They do have to eliminate crime from a community, a tall order and never simple. The responsibilities and character that must accompany honesty, dignity and integrity are arduous and yet, Officer Cook, the hero whose unselfish and unwavering heart and soul answered the calls of duty beyond what was required of you. Dade County will never forget understanding and compassion brought their direction by a blessed, cherished and humble angel now patrolling God's heavenly kingdom where your virtue, vision and versatility were all wise and proficient just as the endeavors poured forth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your family, colleagues have all missed you terribly but they march forward with your legacy of commitment and conviction all true and trustworthy.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 16, 2025

A son, brother, husband, uncle, great-uncle who is forever adored, beloved and certainly a Dade County police hero. What you represented in everything humble and blessed in the words of honor, dignity and integrity that and more, Officer Cook, made you the public servant so proud to wear a badge of bravery and to don a uniform replete with truth, trust and fairness to be unwavering and unselfishly dynamic in all your virtue, versatility and vision. Wisdom beyond your twenty-five years of experience leading other fellow officers through peril and with character, conviction and excellent commitment the tasks and onuses were completed just sad your life ended way too soon because of a heinous and vile individual. You'll be cherished and saluted for your efforts, energy and efficiency giving your heart and soul to quash violence. May you rest in peace my neighbor, hero, friend and angel always remain in God's palms of compassion and care.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 15, 2025

Officer Cook, you will forever be remembered and saluted as a Dade County hero of honor, integrity and dignity who fortified the citizens with peace and security to be recognized. Character, commitment and conviction all truly angelike and surely trustworthy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Trails and paths paved for other brave men and women who don a uniform and wear a badge of humility, heart and unselfish dedication, faithfulness and accountable onus.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 15, 2025

A man with devotion, faith and heroic honor who sacrificed his life and public service career for Dade County to continue its purposes and who shall be saluted as you always are, Officer Cook and never forgotten. Dignity, integrity and character forever going with a full head of steam bringing us our serenity, peace of mind and safety forever cherished and loyal and esteemed. Truth, trustworthiness and commitment undertaken with dedication, determination and warrior like tenacity by a blessed and humble angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 14, 2025

A long day whenever police must due their official duties, roles of reliability and onus that solemnly must be honored, dignified and carried out. Loyalty and esteem must follow eachand every angel of heroism and valor down the trails and paths of perseverance, effort and devotion as you so humbly did, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County bringing serenity and stability closer to each house. Now and forever an angel of the truest character, commitment and conviction may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 11, 2025

Follow the leader and you'll not go wrong if honesty, integrity and dignity are sewed together with character, commitment and conviction. Of course yours, Officer Cook, were spot on when defending Dade County's safety and tranquil paths and trails of truth and trust. A man whose unwavering and unselfish ideals, morals and valued scruples set and raised that bar of intelligence, intuition and ingenuity. The streets and corners were blazed by your satisfaction and complete cherished and loyal soul and heart of nobility and sanctity. Everyone who knew you, Officer Cook, recognizes the everpresent hero within your spirit and now in eternity may God's grace shine down upon you as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your legacy outlines righteousness, congeniality and versatility on par with wisdom, vision and virtue because you cared and badge#1664 was reverently diligent and vigilant at every turn and every assignment placed your way.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 10, 2025

The senses must function justly for true and trusted justice to become accentuated within a given community. Your special and precious heart, soul and spirit, Officer Cook, gave its excellence and integrity to all Dade County where dignity, character and humane honored really belonged. Your family of course wishes you were here and yet they remember the gladiator of gallantry whose responsibilities covered every base. Every corner and street served and protected by your loyal esteem as you remain cherished and saluted forevermore for unselfish and unwavering virtue, vision and wisdom connected to diligence, conviction, commitment and angelic vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Serenity, safety and security was given to our community by a most humbly and blessed righteous servant of Our Maker. Badge#1664 was respected and appreciative of each opportunity to channel your efforts into making mankind feel secure once more.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 10, 2025

Service of the heart and soul added with sacrifice of character, dignity and integrity this was your angelic bravery, Officer Cook, that assisted you greatly in stemming the tide of terror here in Dade County. A venue you called come and grew up to become a man on a mission of loyalty, esteem and virtue. Peace, health and safety were brought upon by your cherished commitment, conviction and all the truthfulness that lies in the pillars of perseverance and trustworthiness. Never forgotten and always saluted for versatility as your vehicles of your special patrols of pride, engagement and unrelenting enhancement. Your legacy is securely fastened by ferocity, tenacity and all the endeavors put forth in diligence and vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 9, 2025

You were a very blessed, adored and heroic young man, Officer Cook and you sadly left your family, comrades and this world much too soon because of one man's fixation for violence and mayhem with Dade County and its citizens. You surely were passionate about your public service career, open and honest, a gentleman filled with a spirit of unselfish and unwavering dignity, integrity and character. There was never a doubt you were succeed in any endeavors you undertook. But God had a plan and He must have needed you to patrol the streets of heaven where your angelic and truly trustworthy heart and soul would make a difference. You brokered and created goodwill, peace of mind and purpose for your family and for the public at large to continue in. May Our Lord provide your family with health, peace and blessings as they get ready for Easter coming up and my family for celebrating Passover. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Commitment and conviction can only occur when due diligence and sincere vigilance occur as one unit.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 9, 2025

The pressure to succeed mounts and what must be amplified is one's good judgment, honesty, integrity and dignity of character and commitment in all convictions. You served heroically all the people of Dade County, Officer Cook, under tremendous duress during a challenging afternoon there in Liberty City along with your last partner and two comrades and you exerted yourself in an unwavering and unselfish manner trying your utmost to calm a wayward and violent man down. You sir my neighbor, friend and angelic hero have a legacy that is one built on the truth and trust of loyalty, faithfulness and the sincere and sacred missions of devotion, grit and determination poured forth to sprout peace, stability and understanding. The reasons and purposes for which mankind accentuates and facilitates its principles and lives of justice and peace on a daily basis. You are to be remembered, saluted and rewarded by Our Creator for living a life of piety and for performing a career tough, yet humbly rewarding to those willingly to undertake the many tasks, challenges and pitfalls that lied ahead. For diligence and vigilance may your special and precious soul be kept in God's palms of perfect perseverance forevermore. Rest in peace Officer Cook. Badge#1664 was replete with grace, goodwill and common sense that highlighted your community patrols of patience and intuitive ingenuity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 8, 2025

The highest compliment is one where ther eis no fanfare. You went about your professional business, Officer Cook. serving and protecting the people of Dade County with honest dignity, integrity and always loyal, true and trustworthy character, commitment and heroic convictions. Our stability and liberty all came about because of you and your unselfish heart and soul of virtue, sanctity and the responsibility you ushered into every patrol, every ounce of energy mustered to create the atmospheres of goodwill, fairness and true justice for mankind. An angel to be humbly saluted as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 8, 2025

Meant to say your ascension, Officer Cook, may very well have happened if a violent young man did not take you so soon while defending the rights and civility of Dade County residents. A very loyal and humble hero whose dignity, integrity and honor were utilized day after day to protect us and you'll be saluted and solemnly paid homage for a job well done. Missions of true trust and faith bearing unwavering and unselfish results. That afternoon of May 16,1979, you acted as trained and performed your onuses with every solid fiber of vigilance, vision, virtue and angelic versatility that lies where you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of character, conviction and the loyalty of commitments to excel and create paths and trails of which your legend keeps abounding. A tool for others for other men and women brave and honorable to follow in.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 7, 2025

Yesterday, Officer Cook, I met a gentleman named Irving Heller and for forty-five years he was employed with the Metro-Dade Police Department. He worked his way up the ranks and was the director at some point in his long public service career. You ascension may very well have happened if not for being taken by violence at the evil hands of a wayward man. Dade County was served by a loyal and esteemed man of integrity, honesty, dignity and character all the articles of faithfulness, resourcefulness and trusted and true allegiance. You will always be remembered and saluted for versatility, vision and virtue which surrounded your unselfish heart and soul at every moment. Now and forever your family's beloved guardian angel whose legacy shines as bright as the nighttime stars may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Paths and trails created by a man blessed with proper values, morals and ideals. He was the highest Jewish officer in your department and his son, Randy worked there as well rising through thr ranks.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 7, 2025

Women and men of character, honored commitment and convictions all require salutes of virtue, heroic dignity and integrity. You cannot have professional public servants patrolling the streets for chaos and mayhem who are not themselves civil minded individuals as you always were, Officer Cook. Shielding Dade County from harm while exposing yourself to the very samething we hope never robs us of peace, liberty and the freedom of which to pursue lives of purpose and practicality. You are to be remembered and saluted for being an unselfish and nobly cherished gentleman of true allegiance, faith and the ideals of a man with sense and intuition now and forever angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero knowing God watches over your sweet and precious heart, soul and spirit of which legends are humbly created from. You gave a sacrifice that will remain esteemed and loyal forevermore.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 6, 2025

We pay tolls to drive on certain roads. Police toil, exert and spend every ounce of heroic dignity, honesty and integrity to safely secure our very homes where our freedoms and purposes lie. You paid the ultimate price, Officer Cook, in order for Dade County and its citizens to live peacefully, fruitfully and constructively. No doubt your legendary and proud name shall be remembered and nobily saluted for having the resourcefulness, faithfulness and always present ferocity to conquer evil and violence where no other person would dare go. A gentleman with unselfish trust and truth making their solemn patrols around the boundaries of a community you called home and where you forever rest in angelic peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Character, commitment and conviction are both wisdom and virtues heroes of intelligence, ingenuity and intuition. Cherished and surely saluted for such humbly blessed and sacred journeys undertaken to make mankind prosperous once again.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 5, 2025

Dade County was served by a loyal, noble and most humble hero of blessing and faithfulness in yourself, Officer Cook. A young man passionate yet compassionate when the situation called for such character, commitment and conviction all truly sincere and trustworthy beyond reproach. Never forgotten, you represented what every public and professional servant must have and that is honesty, humility from an unselfish and unrelenting heart and soul, your spirit now and forever angelically walking its solemn beat above must be remembered and saluted for its virtue, sacred missions of goodwill and esteem put forward as your family keeps your legacy shining brightly every moment of their lives. Our pursuits, passions and purposes were started by men and women all heroes and heroines of effort and resiliency and shall remain honored for sacrifice, bravery and service. Peace and stability all gently placed down here on this earth to continue positively ahead. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Respect and diligence was always found on your humane uniform and badge of versatility.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 5, 2025

Police work requires that very exact touch of tenacity, honesty and the dignity that is behind the supportive wings of integrity and humbly blessed and heroic character. That you surely possessed, Officer Cook, your whole young life and promising professional career patrollingthe streets and corners of Dade County. A true legend of a gentleman born with exactly every decent trait of commitment and conviction. You did all you could that very fateful day of May 16, 1979 actingas you were trained to do performing as a real hero and endeavoring to stop a very wayward and disrespectful man from harming you and your colleagues along with the residents of whom you undertook a sacred oath to serve and protect their stability, freedom and purposes of living happily. That was robbed sadly from you and you'll be saluted for virtue, valor and for carrying out dangerous tasks. Now and for eternity an angel in heaven watching over your family and comrades. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You paved paths of unselfish and unwavering perseverance and compassion demonstrated at every turn.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 3, 2025

Esteem and loyalty make up heroism in a man of faithful duty and principle as you solemnly served Dade County, Officer Cook and strived to make peace betweenmankind. Sincerely dignified and full of honest integrity the angel in your unselfish heart, soul and spirit rests in peace with you my neighbor, friend and hero. Virtue, sacred truth and trustworthiness always supplying their compassion, support and comfort in times of trouble and duress.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 3, 2025

Officer Cook, your honorable and heroic pride was out on patrol in Dade County every moment you donned your uniform and badge of bravery, integrity and dignity. From your character, commitment and conviction all true and clearly trustworthy your family could see you accomplished much during your short career and life tragically cutdown by wanton and heinous evil. You keep resting in peace as their angel my neighbor, friend and hero. Virtue, vision and wisdom were all above loyalty and cherished esteem as you made the ultimate sacrifice for our peace and purposes of which we could fulfill. They were yours as well and retirement should have been allowed for such a beautiful young man a gifted and enhancing public servant of true trustworthiness and a blessed and heroic heart and soul.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 2, 2025

True heroes are those public servants who demonstrate and display the proper ethics, class, decency and desire to serve and protect their communities as you so faithfully and loyally did, Officer Cook. A man of God, a gentleman of effort, devotion and the dignity of having integrity so full of humility, heart and soul. Unselfish and unyielding in all your duties of virtue and sacred character, commitment and conviction put forth during your earthly journeys. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, so cherished and precious. Your family misses you very much as you were a very special human being, a man blessed with awareness, acumen and proficient accountability.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 2, 2025

A hero until your last breath, Officer Cook, heroically serving Dade County and creating the everlasting bonds of peace through your unselfish honesty, refined character and true commitment while having persevering dignity and integrity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend, angel and hero. Saluted for virtue, valor and vision all sacredly placed during your life and career patrols of your beloved community.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

April 1, 2025

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