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 voice of God resonates forever. He look down on us and over His sacred flock of angelic heroes and heroines who gave their ultimate sacrifice for mankind and their cherished communities to remain safe, sound and very secure. This was what you chose to become, Officer Cook, not only were you a loyal, genuinely compassion young man, you were a first class gentleman devoted to the agendas of acumen, honesty, integrity and dignity all from your outstanding and upstanding reverence, diligence and true allegiance. To perform your assignments even in peril's face of oppression speaks volumes regarding your professional demeanor and effort put forth every watch. And now those morals, ideals, values and scruples all carried forth by those who have succeeded you and may they along with your family and their loved ones stay safe and blessed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel who will forever be saluted for virtue, gallantry, wisdom and unselfish strength of heart and soul. Never forgotten! Badge#1664 is respect, is congeniality and all credibility.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 27, 2025

Faith, resiliency and devotion cannot ever be confused, for if they are heaven forbid lost then dignity, integrity and honesty cannot serve their proper roles of onus when they are needed the most. Fortunately, Officer Cook, these were always on your unassuming, unselfish and unwavering character, commitments and earthly convictions that served the citizens of Dade County quite well indeed. A master motivator and leader, your life and public service career has remained well documented and respected as we salute you for bravery, virtue and taking capability further down the lines where your legacy keeps growing as you will never be forgotten. An angel whose heart, soul and spirit are in heaven looking down upon your family as you my neighbor, friend and hero rest in peace. True allegiance and the trust you garnered by being respectful and respected by your peers.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 26, 2025

Acumen that was accentuated, acumen that augmented your awesome earthly journeys. Such authentic honor, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, was your loyal and treasured soul of heroism performing its humble and blessed patrols of Dade County. You were so humble and mankind has surely missed you as has your family and comrades. Forever an angel of unselfish trust and truth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 26, 2025

Thoughtfulness and articulation are the dedication and heroic integrity, dignity and honesty of a warrior constructed in acumen, awareness and astuteness. Dade County was your venue, Officer Cook, your vehicles of virtue, visibility, vision and valor. Such an understanding man of humble and blessed character, courage and commitment, whose truth and trust patrolled a community where you were devoted and loyal. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend, angel and hero. You'll always be cherished by your family and friends, comrades who served the purposes by which we can live freely and safely.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 25, 2025

Faith and effort begin from the pillars of honorable and diligent perseverance which you steadfastly maintained, Officer Cook, throughout your life and heroic professional public service career with Dade County. Your protection of mankind has forever been remembered and solemnly saluted for unselfish and unwavering virtue, vigilance and the allegiance of a man dignified with character and intuitive integrity. Never forgotten for paths and trails all proper and morally righteous. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, hero and gentleman of sound commitment and convictions all true and trustworthy.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 24, 2025

Accentuated in acumen and heroic character, dignity and integrity your honesty, Officer Cook, shall stay forever implanted within the history of Dade County heroes. Our peace and pursuits are because of your patrols of evil creating the goodwill and resourceful that mankind yearns for. The trails and paths you paved were truthful and certainly trustworthy. An angel of virtue and versatility whose vehicles were loyal and most meaningful. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend an hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 23, 2025

You were such a dedicated officer, Officer Cook, faithful, brave and honorably humble. A bright star taken way too soon. Your family carries your heroic legacy forward with the very same traits of discipline, dignity, integrity and loyal character to be saluted and remembered forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, friend and hero. Virtue belongs in the same sentence with truth and trust.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 23, 2025

Ferocity is not fear. Tenacity is truth and trustworthiness combined to form a powerful dynamic duo. Dade County is a large metropolis and you, Officer Cook, heroically, humbly and humanely loyal protected its residents with every ounce of your unselfish and unwavering heart and soul. A gem of a gentleman who gained rather received the respect and admiration of your courageous peers who teamed with you. If a man stays focused and keeps his honesty, character and dignity close to your vests of versatility, vision and virtue where commitment and convictions were succinctly clear. You never be forgotten and saluted for angelic acumen, awareness and astuteness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 22, 2025

It's not a race to the very finish. It's the genesis of a new day and each day, Officer Cook, you achieved beyond expectations. Dade County was protected with your honesty, integrity and dignity, character, commitment and conviction all true and trusted. We salute the virtue in your angelic heart and soul, your reverent spirit is being watched over by God who keeps His flock of sacred angels together for eternity. Your unwavering and unselfish morals, values and scruples kept things flowing along with your charismatic and loyal attitude. Never more compassionate, concerned and esteemed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Loyalty and devotion shared their roles with responsibility and dependability. Badge#1664 was diligent and vigilant always ready to go forward. When violence and evil struck, Officer Cook, you arrived to straighten out the hornet's nest of ugliness and replaced it with peace, safety and serenity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 21, 2025

The cusp was just beginning to take shape when God sadly brought your angelic and heroically humble soul back to heaven on May 16,1979, Officer Cook. You did so much for Dade County residents striving for a semblance of peace, happiness and prosperity. One very hot afternoon in Liberty City all kayos exploded just before the end of your shift when you and your last partner, Reserve Officer Scott Lincoln responded to that ugly domestic violence call. But you'll be humbly remembered and saluted for acumen, wisdom and virtue combining with your unassuming and unselfish character, commitment and convictions all filled with determination and dedication. Desire, decency and the accomplishment of trying to quiet down a wayward man. You gave everything to those battles where bravery and boldness went along on your sacred missions of goodwill, hope and faithfulness. Badge#1664 was complete with respect, vigilance and carefully planned due diligence. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You patrol God's heavenly streets while other officers endeavor to utilize their own morals, values and scruples to succeed. The wars and battles continue to heat up they must be extinguished before more evil unfurls its wrath of ugly proportions upon mankind. Your family and humanity truly miss you everyday.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 20, 2025

Nothing but love and adoration for you, Officer Cook, a name built on the legends of heroic honor, dignity and integrity all a central theme no pun intended on your blessed name of character, commitment and conviction the ones all truthful and trustworthy earned the salutes and reverence of a Dade County community so grateful to a dear gentleman of faith, direction and esteem. Seeing that you were treasured and loyal to your family, comrades and friends too many to name you will be solemnly remembered and never angelically forgotten as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 20, 2025

Faithful and resourceful until the end, you never gave up the battle cries of the public here in Dade County, Officer Cook, when safety, security and serenity were on the line. For a man of acumen, awareness and astuteness, the level of honesty, dignity and integrity was always there loyal and humble performing the duties was life and death meant preserving the community so that pursuits and aspirations may travel forward. Now and forever an angel of true trust, character, commitment and conviction. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A badge of distinction wore respectfully and with proper due diligence and vigilance.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 20, 2025

Officer Cook, additives and superlatives are not needed for a man brave and heroic. Unselfish, unrelenting and angelically unwavering all applied to you for giving your life and career to service the needs of Dade County protecting its integrity, dignity and honesty as the good Lord bestowed upon your esteemed and cherished heart, soul and spirit so loyal and endeavoring. We can be clear you will be remembered, solemnly saluted for journeys of faithfulness, goodwill and virtue, the vision and wisdom so compassionate, caring and resilient. Clarity and truth were the boundaries of trustworthiness and the values and standards by which you conducted your life and professional career of character, conviction and commitment unyielding. Violence and evil tragically robbed your family, colleagues and friends of a very resourceful, diligent and vigilant gentleman. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 19, 2025

A young man strong, heroic and bold can stand up to the likes of peril if equally essential honesty, integrity and dignity remains intact such as yours, Officer Cook. The welfare and well being of Dade County was certainly in your humbly blessed and loyal hands of esteem and gratitude. You were devoutly faithful and driven by your unwavering and unselfish devotion and resiliency to your family and colleagues whom you partnered with. The heavens have your character, commitment and convictions all truly trustworthy and the trails you paved with scruples and values shall never be forgotten and paid their respectful homage and salutes of sanctity, versatility and responsibility from a very diligent man of acceptance and vigilance all forevermore eternal and angelic. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Duly trained, prepared and a first class decent man of determination and the gallantry of dedication. You remain very much today Officer Cook and I'm sure Friday May 16, was not forgotten by your comrade and friend Keith DiGenova who was nearly killed that fateful day God called you home.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 18, 2025

Sometimes you would think our world is a ticking time bomb about to explode in misery, grief and agonizing heartache. Your family, Officer Cook, tragically and most unfortunately experienced this when you lost your life defending the residents of Dade County where you lived and grew up. Your ingenuity, intelligence and ingenuity did come in handy when you fought those difficult and sometimes heated battles over violence and turmoil. No one ever expected such a loyal and humbly blessed servant of humility and heart, dignity and integrity to lose his life while spreading peace, security and blessing over our very homes where pursuits, dreams and aspirations abound. We salute you for honesty and having an unselfish soul and spirit always ready when the calls of responsibility would come. Capable, dependable and a first class gentleman of virtue, vision and wisdom always prepared to fight tooth and nail for us. May your intensity as a lion and an angel soul rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of truth and trust, character, conviction and commitment to excel and not let opportunity and endeavor go by without sealing off criminal actions of those inclined to do so. Always reverent, dedicated, faithful and resourcefully humane and courteous. You deserved to live and to see your life with Karen continue unabated with a retirement to enjoy your remaining years of health, peace and blessed prosperity. The world and your family that day lost such a wonderful man of God and mankind is devoid of your principles, morals and righteous devotion.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 18, 2025

Your attitude is surely what makes you humble and heroic. You performed the rigors of your dangerous profession, Officer Cook, with every bit of honor, integrity and dignity. Intuitive and decisive certainly can assist in a positive outcome and for six short years of service to Dade County and its citizens you exerted the effort and energy to combat evil, violence and wanton criminal acts which are detrimental to society being able to aspire to greatness. You will never be forgotten and angelically saluted as a legend of loyal and cherished character, commitment and true convictions. Trustworthiness speaks and diligence and respect listen intently. Sacred journeys of vision, virtue and versatility all put forth in a manner of morals and values. Badge#1664 was unwavering, unselfish and always unrelenting. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 18, 2025

A gentleman of valor, honor and heroism protecting Dade County your cherished community with every ounce of fortitude, ferocity and surely humble and blessed sensitivity, effort and the unselfish guidance of integrity, dignity and character which steered your sacred missions, Officer Cook until God called your precious and sweet angelic soul back to heaven. This was the sacrifice that has validated your legacy of fruition and faith through truth and trustworthiness everything a public servant must wear and take special care. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 17, 2025

Today, Officer Cook, I visited your grave to pray for your soul. Beloved and heroic, a gentleman that protected Dade County with all his might and humble heart. Integrity that locked itself to dignity, honesty and character that complimented commitment and conviction. Truth and trust that paved the paths and trails for others to follow in. You were a man above the crowd in maturity and sanctity. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 16, 2025

You'll never be forgotten, Officer Cook, always your family and Dade County's hero of integrity, angelic loyalty and humbly blessed dignity that served and provided us with peace. A gentleman refined and clearly with outstanding character and truly trustworthy commitments and convictions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 16, 2025

To the Tidwell, Wilkerson Families you have my deepest sympathies and to those relatives of you, Officer Cook, that I personally met, Gina Wilkerson and her brother Justin William Miller who has your heroic middle name. The Cook Family has been so beloved and blessed while they resided in Dade County primarily in North Miami Beach where I still reside and reflect. After all forty-six years is a long, long time since your patrolled actually Officer Cook, you began your law enforcement career back in 1973 over fifty years ago when decency, desire and dedication policed along with unsung, unwavering and unselfish integrity, honesty, dignity and the outstanding character, class and commitment of your convictions in your heart and soul. They were complete with true trustworthiness and every bit of unbridled tenacity which endeavored to kayo evil, violence and wanton senselessness that further corrodes society's pursuits of shared goodness, peace, prosperity and faithful goodwill all sacred, versatile and virtuous. Now and forever saluted as a humanely blessed, esteemed and cherished angel, may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You were concentrated in accomplishment, accentuating resiliency and in perpetuating excellence in morals, values and clearly refined scruples and principles. Again never forgotten as Badge#1664 was about the traits of diligence, vigilance and reverent motivation and in leading other fellow officers during tense moments.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 15, 2025

The fallen officer flag should be flying humbly and heroically at your grave, Officer Cook and when I visit on Friday morning God willing it should be there not lying on the ground. You are a Dade County hero steeped in love by your family, situated in honesty, dignity and charismatic integrity for the sacrifice you gave forty-six years ago. Our freedoms and liberties were because of your unselfish, unwavering and undying esteem, virtue and loyalty to be saluted and so solemnly remembered after all you would have been married for fifty years to your beloved Karen. We don't forget when a man's aspirations, sacred missions and purposes of peace are continued for us and yours our angel, my neighbor, friend and hero are violently robbed from you. Rest in peace. God shelters your precious and sweet soul and spirit for eternity.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 14, 2025

The exact impact of integrity, ingenuity and intuition can be felt in a community when its heroic men and women place their dignified and honorable hearts and souls where truly belong. You yearned to become a police officer, Officer Cook, more than an explorer whose faith, devotion and humility never waned as you solemnly protected the good residents of Dade County. This is where you gave your life and career for a cause, a man of morals and scruples whose character, commitment and convictions matched all the requirements of a public servant. Our stability and peace of mind to go about our pursuits because the man wearing badge#1664 cared, was concerned and most compassionate about his work. Details that demand effort, respect and unselfish diligence and ever present vigilance to rid us from violence and wanton evil. Never forgotten and saluted for virtue, sacred missions and loyalty from one esteemed soldier of resiliency. Now and forever an angel may you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. All productivity, all capability and all dependability through shared onuses.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 14, 2025

Never more devoted, determined and dedicated work, Officer Cook, performed by you, Officer Cook, heroically serving and protecting the humbly blessed and loyal citizens of Dade County. You will always remain cherished and esteemed for undertaking a profession known for danger and yet were so dignified and honorable while carrying your integrity and character within your heart and soul so valiant, yet full of impactful virtue, vision and wisdom from your youth and experience in leading other officers through peril. We salute you and will never forget you and your legacy of commitment, intuition and noble convictions. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You forevermore be your family and department's angel of bravery, diligence and of course true vigilance.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 13, 2025

An angel of heroic grace, character, charisma and charm patrolling Dade County with blessed honor, dignity and integrity that was upstanding and outstanding during your professional career and sacred life. Its journeys and missions of goodwill, Officer Cook, that will be cherished and solemnly saluted and remembered. Everything you gave has never be forgotten. The truth and trust of tenacity that always was loyal, dependable and responsible for tackling evil and violence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 12, 2025

A humble and blessed heart and soul teaming up as one entity to protect the good citizens of Dade County in peace, health and stability. This is what you yearned to become, a loyal and esteemed public servant so caring, completely professional and of course unselfish and unwavering in all your seriously dangerous responsibilities toward mankind and your family who will forever carry you in their hearts and minds. Because of integrity, honest character and straight forward dignity we won't forget you and the life you lived by devotion, truth and trust. Just everyday an outstanding man, young and bold, gallant and virtuous whose vision and sacred missions of goodwill and dedication crafted our homes, streets and community where your legacy is uplifted each moment as an angel. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

May 11, 2025

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