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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

You drove the dignity, integrity and heroic honesty all around Dade County giving loyal and esteemed service and protection to its citizens. Never forgotten and always saluted for being bold and having composed commitments and convictions, Officer Cook, all truly trustworthy of a man devoted and dedicated to his family, cherished community and a host of friends. Such diligence and vigilance has been watched over and duly rewarded by God my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel who strived for humility and had a golden heart and soul unselfishly unwavering and persevering. Rest in peace.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 21, 2025

The grit, gumption, gallantry and determination carry all the weight of honesty, dignity and integrity of which your upstanding character, commitment and the truth and trust of your earnest convictions, Officer Cook, were all humble, loyal and esteemed as you protected the folks of Dade County. You'll be saluted, remembered solemnly as angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 20, 2025

The world and your family surely misses you, Officer Cook and Dade County will forever be indebted to you for your humbly blessed integrity, dignity and honest character. A man who blazed those sacred paths and trails for other men and women of bravery and virtue. A gentleman of class, decency, desire and dedication . Our safety, serenity and security were embraced by your love, esteem and loyalty. We salute your fortitude and pay solemn homage to you for living a proud life and performing in a profession though filled with danger does reward its angels of valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 19, 2025

You, Officer Cook, were a gem of a man simply and humbly accentuated in honor, humility and a heart and soul galvanized by goodwill, faithfulness and devotion to your family, colleagues and the loyal residents of Dade County, your beloved home and community where integrity, dignity and outstanding character, commitment and conviction all displayed truthfully and in a very trustworthy manner. We salute your grit, ferocity and tenacity in every way of life and a profession of which you acquitted yourself marvelously and meaningfully. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend, hero and angel. Eternity has your esteem and cherished humbleness all blessed with versatility, vision and virtue. A gentleman who sacrificed for mankind's freedom, liberties and the serenity that security has to offer us.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 18, 2025

The suffering, the pain and agony, the grief over lossing a beloved family member it strikes at the very heart and soul of families whose loved ones devoted and dedicated their lives of honor, integrity and dignity to sacrifice for their communities and mankind that greatly misses them each second. Dade County was where your esteem, treasured loyalty and character, Officer Cook, were tied together with truth and trustworthiness. The paths and trails you blazed are now reserved for other brave servants, warriors and protectors who place their entire endeavor into the total body of due diligence and humbly blessed reverence, faithfulness and vigilance yours is forever angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The Wilkerson and Tidwell Families carry your legacy close to their hearts and souls as they pursue their dreams and aspirations. You are forever their inspiration of virtue, vision and sacred missions of goodwill spread far and wide to prmote peace and stability for every living being.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 17, 2025

Sometimes unfinished business must be left for other brave and humbly blessed warriors to complete. Your earthly efforts, Officer Cook, on behalf of Dade County citizens were a byproduct of honesty, integrity and dignity all virtuous and always so loyal, cherished and esteemed and that is precisely why you will forever be saluted and paid solemn homage for living a life and performing in a profession where character, commitment and angelic conviction all must be found on the very same pages as truth and trustworthiness belong. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of heart and soul along with diligence and vigilance. You were greatly admired, beloved and respected among your peers. Never forgotten and always devoted, faithful and resourceful.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 16, 2025

Determination and direction are what is needed to stamp out crime and all situations associated with violence and heinous evil. Dade County was where your heroic and humbly blessed heart and soul, Officer Cook, to the streets to diligently serve and protect the citizens giving the opportunity to live lives of reason, prosperity and purpose to march onward. A man, a gentleman given the tools of tenacity, independence and integrity forever enhancing your unselfish dignity, character, commitment and conviction all truth and trustworthiness. Always treasured, beloved and loyal to your fellow officers. The angel wings have kept your special and precious soul and heart hovering above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 14, 2025

You are forever, Officer Cook, your family's most beloved and darling "Uncle Bo." Dade County will always cherish your heroic professional expeditions that brought violence to its knees and replenished security, safety and serenity in our midst. Honor, integrity, dedication and fortitude along with dignity truly trustworthy character, endearing commitment to succeed and effort all from training, practice and humbly blessed angelic talents and skills that combined with wisdom, virtue and sacred versatility and due diligence. A respected and vigilant gentleman who is forever saluted. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 14, 2025

Authentic, yet very humble. You surely were the epitome of a hero, Officer Cook and so graceful while serving your beloved Dade County community. Honesty, integrity and dignity went down the patrols where character, commitment and conviction were solid, truthful and most trustworthy. Your family, colleagues and friends have missed you very dearly. The ultimate sacrifice you made was made with genuine loyalty, esteem as you remain treasured and angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Faithful, resourceful, and a real gentleman of endeavor, efficiency and energy. Totally unselfish and unwavering you enriched, enhanced and enlightened society with a wise smile from your handsome face.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 13, 2025

The shelters of sensibility were established by an extremely heroic and loyally dedicated young man in yourself, Officer Cook. A Dade County hero blessed with acumen, astuteness and awareness only looking to create a more peaceful environment for mankind. Humanity and your loving family misses you very dearly everyday. They do carry your legacy of humble and humane honesty forward in their personal efforts and the dignity, integrity and character have forever been blazed by other valuable and brave men and women all angels like you protecting and serving the public with class, enthusiasm and energy all unselfishly responsible for us to live and to thrive. Always loyally saluted for versatility, ability and sacred journeys of goodwill and resiliency taken onward. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 13, 2025

It's essential that every servant act the way the law specifies. You always conducted your professional affairs, Officer Cook, with clarity, alacrity and dignity fulfilling your sacred oath in protecting Dade County from violence. A man blessed, humble and fortified in honesty, integrity and outstanding character, commitment and conviction all sincerely unselfish and forevermore unwavering and unrelenting. Now as an angel may Our Master shelter your esteemed and loyal heart, soul and spirit in His abode to rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You surely deserved to live on in retirement with your beloved Karen. Just think being married for fifty years instead we must pay homage and salute your virtue, valor and wise vision having been taken away from your loved ones over forty-six years ago.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 13, 2025

Heroism is the sacred and solemn word of cherished blessings of Our Lord upon the hearts and souls of angels of honor, dignity and integrity. It is where lives matter and protecting them and property takes on newer proportions. You gave your sweet and precious soul, Officer Cook to secure and maker safer your beloved community of Dade County. That is where virtue, truth and trust support the poles of persevering character. commitment and conviction so essential to humanity's pursuits of prosperity and abundant happiness. Because of you and your unselfish and unwavering spirit may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 12, 2025

Heroism is the sacred and solemn word of cherished blessings of Our Lord upon the hearts and souls of angels of honor, dignity and integrity. It is where lives matter and protecting them and property takes on newer proportions. You gave your sweet and precious soul, Officer Cook to secure and maker safer your beloved community of Dade County. That is where virtue, truth and trust support the poles of persevering character. commitment and conviction so essential to humanity's pursuits of prosperity and abundant happiness. Because of you and your unselfish and unwavering spirit may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 12, 2025

The class of the world, the cream of the crop and blessed hero of your family, Officer Cook, you were revered by many, many people in and around your department and shall remain a man saluted for dedication, resourcefulness and always aiding your comrades and the folks of Dade County who never will forget you and everything true and trusted you spoke and represented in character, dignity and integrity they were completely honorable and duly a help to humanity with peace, safety and stability. A gentleman of solid commitment and virtue who relied upon your basic instincts. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 11, 2025

Such a deserving and blessed heart and heroic soul, Officer Cook, that served Dade County with the finest distinction, class and decency. They shall forevermore be saluted along with honesty, dignity and integrity. pride, loyalty and esteem must follow each and every angel of heroism on their marches and patrols of safety, security and serenity if mankind and humanity are to pursue lives without threats of war and strife and you my neighbor, friend and hero of truly trustworthy character, commitment and conviction. Rest in peace Officer Cook. A man of unselfish and persevering diligence and respect always looking out for his family, colleagues and community.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 10, 2025

Heroes are humbly born and when they succeed you can expect honors and humbly blessed accolades to pour forth. The sprouts of freedom and safety fell from the skies when you performed your crucial roles on behalf of Dade County citizens, Officer Cook. Badge#1664 was reverent and respected across the community where you were adored and where your battles were humanely undertaken. When a gentleman of unselfish honesty, enhanced dignity and the outstanding character where trust and truth all led perseverance and effort down those trails and paths where angels serve the sacred causes of security, stability and liberty we must honor and saluted their professional acumen, awareness and astuteness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 9, 2025

You were heroic, Officer Cook and very well versed in everything in the words of honesty, integrity and dignity which served and protected the very public here in Dade County. Your character, commitment and conviction all upgraded the entire landscape where you gave your humble and blessed unselfish and unrelenting soul of loyalty and esteem to be mankind safer and securer. Your angelic dedication, devotion and determination will never be forgotten and will be saluted for sacred journeys of virtue, vision and wisdom always poured into your prolific efforts to rid violence from our midst. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. It is the truth and trust that gained you respect from your peers as well as being motivated and highly diligent and vigilant.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 9, 2025

So special, precious and humbly blessed and heroically loyal and esteemed, your life and professional public service career with Dade County, Officer Cook, shall never be forgotten. You worked tirelessly on behalf of the residents of your beloved community to enhance and to enforce the laws bringing peace, stability and safety to all who cherished you just as your family that has missed your sweet face and smile so greatly all these decades later. Time marches on but honor, dignity and unselfish integrity and outstanding character all remain a vitally essential portion of your heroic legacy to be saluted for the dedication and truest of commitments of trustworthiness and now as one of God's sacred and solemn angels may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Persevering and persistent in your battles over violence and strife your badge and uniform spelled out the words, diligence and vigilance.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 8, 2025

A very brave and bold young man of substance and outstanding faith, devotion and dedication laying everything on the line to service and to protect the people of Dade County. Your sacred life and career, Officer Cook, were well supported by the pillars of honor, integrity and dignity fortifying humanity which has struggled to cope since you were taken back to heaven. Commitment, character and conviction must be as true and trustworthy as the solemn affirmation that you willingly undertook fifty years ago. Now as a heroic angel whose legacy shine bright may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. It's in your family's genes and bloodlines to carry out your essential aspirations which are to be cherished as esteem and loyalty as they live their lives of humility and unselfish pursuits in goodwill, peace and enhancement.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 6, 2025

A righteous man of resilience and resourcefulness whose gallantry galvanized his beloved community of Dade County. Officer Cook, you will forever be revered as a public service officer, honest, dignified and full of integrity. Our civility, stability and peaceful pursuits were launched because of your unselfish sacrifice on behalf of humanity. Always a composed gentleman of character, commitment and the true conviction of trust esteem and loyalty. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 5, 2025

Today being July 4th, Officer Cook, you are certainly missed all these decades later though you forever be remembered and saluted for giving the honest effort, having integrity and the true and trusted fortitude of dignity and character that patrolled the streets of Dade County for freedom, liberty and equality for every citizen. Now as one of God's many angels of fruition, esteem and loyalty may you humility and unselfish heart and soul be blessed and watched over as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Just a man of meaningful diligence and reverence. Due diligence given to every person. A man treasured by his family, department and close friends.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 4, 2025

It's a common theme to fight crime but as always caution, care, consideration and concern must be upheld as defending the public is essential. To shield us from harm and heinousness means that each servant must give of themselves. That is exactly why a humble and humane heart and soul must be exercised at every corner, road and path. Where your unwavering, unrelenting and unselfish heroism reacted, Officer Cook, they reached the top of the ladder. Those rungs of resiliency, resourcefulness and virtue were certainly beyond the crowd. As a leader you must first demonstrate certain disciplines of honesty, integrity and dignity as your paths and trails were solid like a rock and always so loyal, truthful and most trustworthy. The citizens of Dade County were always always provided top notch dedicated service as our stability and safety were looked after very carefully. Never forgotten and solemnly saluted for bravery, charisma, charm and just treasured passion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend, angel and hero. The lessons, the morals, ideals, scruples and values were representative off faithful commitment, conviction and character only of decency, desire and determination. You will always be missed by your family who carries your inspirations and aspirations forward in their everyday lives and pursuits of peace and happiness. You sir made your beloved parents, sister and extended family members extremely proud. Keith Di Genova told me you were 5'8'' and one-hundred and sixty pounds of highly impactful energy and efficiency as proficient as it gets. Badge#1664 was about the means of reverence, respect, patience along poignant diligence and vigilance as it pays the public going forward.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2025

To protect, serve and save lives is the goal of every woman and man who angelically honor their roles of gallantry with pride, perseverance and unselfish dignity, integrity and character as you, Officer Cook, so heroically did on behalf of Dade County folks. With every morsel of mettle, with every fiber of scruples and with each fabric of faithfulness, firmness and fairness did you solemnly respect your badge and uniform even when danger struck. Tragic that you had to give your life and you'll forever be solemnly remembered and saluted for each syllable of esteem, loyalty and the sanctity of your journeys of endeavor, effort and yearning. An oath is sacred and so is versatility, responsibility and accountability all shared by warriors who welcome the challenge to step up to the plate of unwavering commitments and convictions and yours, Officer Cook, were always will be inspirational. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your were a prince of a gentleman who epitomized what public service is all about. It's a twenty-four seven day profession that never slumbers nor drifts away.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2025

Nerves of steel and a golden heroic heart, Officer Cook, that served Dade County with humbly blessed integrity, dignity and character that gave us stability, serenity and security forevermore. Your truth and trust enhanced humanity beyond anything and your versatility, vision and virtue saved the day just so sad you cannot be here with family and friends celebrating July 4th. Commitment and conviction all angelic and may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 3, 2025

A man and a gentleman of faith, devotion and humanely humble and blessed piety all used diligently to patrol Dade County streets with an underlying passion, compassion and concern for every human being and humanity won't overlook your life and career, Officer Cook, steadfastly pioneered by a persevering man of truth and trust buckled together with dignity and integrity created from character, conviction and commitment to succeed. You never gave in to temptation nor wavered in your unselfish heroism to rid us of adversity and unwanted violence that took you from us, your family and colleagues who worked beside loyalty, esteem and just a proud, humble and uniquely sincere man of vigilance and respect. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your compasses of virtue, versatility and sanctity all faced the same direction, its paths of fortitude all measured exactly as Our Creator had planned only wish it did not end so wrongly and you'll be saluted and paid homage for a performance and a job well undertaken. Our serenity and safety came about through your tunnels of tenacity and reserved righteousness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 2, 2025

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