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

Last night, Officer Cook, I finally met Officer Di Genova and his twin brother Kenneth at his home. The lights of the holidays his street just as your precious and humbly heroic heart illuminates heaven and the hearts of your family. You were a man of faith, and devotion in all your sacred duties protecting Dade County. It's found in character, dignity and integrity which forever personifies your legacy as we salute you always. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. They made a copy of the warm and beautiful letter your mom sent my you all rest in eternal glory. You'll not be forgotten by my family.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 29, 2023

The boldness of an eagle with wisdom, virtue and vision like a hawk. A man of action, integrity and the character, honesty and dignity of a loyal and cherished heart. Dade County as does your family, Officer Cook, surely misses you as you made the ultimate sacrifice to bring peace and safe travels to your beloved community and we salute your faithful, truthful and trusted missions of blessed humility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 28, 2023

The New year is nearly here, Officer Cook and so should you be too. Clearly you'll forever be remembered and saluted for being a Dade County hero of the esteemed law enforcement community where your legacy of honor, dignity and integrity shall have its rightful place among true and trustworthy heroes and heroines of character, heart and soul. Your wisdom and virtue helped to sustain the peace of mankind forever indebted to a gentleman of unwavering and unselfish bravery and vision. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 27, 2023

Much love and appreciation for all that you succeeded in during your short life and career, Officer Cook. Dade County was more than satisfied with your heroic efforts to stave off violence and create a sense of humble, blessed and humane serenity for all mankind to prosper. Your faithful, truthful and trusted missions and journeys of honor, dignity, character and integrity shall forevermore be remembered and solemnly saluted for virtue, wisdom and the sacred channels for which they supported your uplifting of a community where your legacy remains treasured. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Clearly commitment and convictions followed you every second your unselfish, unwavering and persevering heart and soul was alive and in its esteemed protective mode.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 26, 2023

With a giant heart and soul of heroism, Officer Cook, you strived each and everyday to make the citizens of Dade County securer and much safer and during your short life and career you accomplished your faithful and trustworthy missions of goodwill, devotion, commitment and integrity. Such unwavering and unselfish dignity, virtue and character honest and very much appreciated yet missed sadly by your family and colleagues will be saluted solemnly and never forgotten one second. You soar high as your department and family blessed, humble and cherished of angels. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 25, 2023

A versatile veteran whose vision, virtue and most sacred and heroic wisdom, honor and dignity supported your branches of boldness carrying your journeys of character, commitment and integrity far and wide throughout Dade County. Officer Cook, you will be saluted forever as an angel who cared was compassionate and was the consummate and loyal public servant seeped in unselfish and unwavering perseverance to truth and justice. The trust of humanity was always in your esteemed heart of hope, faith and goodwill. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 24, 2023

A grand man of heroic honor, humane dignity and devoted and faithful integrity, they speak volumes of you, Officer Cook and the life and excellent career you created and for the folks of Dade County being superbly protected by a loving man of dedication and due diligence. Never forgotten and forever saluted for bravery, virtue and wisdom sacred and secure. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of angelic character, trust and true commitment in all your earthly convictions of justice.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 23, 2023

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Your skills and heroic honor, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, fortified the Dade County community and brought the citizens the branches of peace, prosperity and the essential roots of safe trails and paths for all to travel in. A healthy gentleman of character, commitment and conviction that were the consummate centerpieces of your life and career. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Truth and trust leading your wheels of wisdom, virtue and sanctity all now angelic and forever hovering above in God's perfect plains.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 22, 2023

You touched the hearts and minds of so many individuals during your sadly all too short life, Officer Cook, you will be solemnly and proudly be saluted giving every ounce of energy and character, dignity, integrity and honor two the people of Dade County where your unassuming and unselfish soul protected us more than we could ever comprehend. A voice cries out and public servants of humble blessings, loyalty and esteem race to the sacred calls where true trust and virtue are tied along with wisdom, vision and diligence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Commitment, goodwill and respect are all angel's signs of lives and careers performed without hesitation, regret and unwillingness. Badge#1664 was reverent, alert and always mindful of your humbly blessed roots of faith, devotion and resolve.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 21, 2023

A truly heroic comrade, friend and beloved family member. That was you, Officer Cook, a man devoted to the shelters of peace and liberty for all humanity. Dade County was where your unassuming, unwavering and unselfish honesty, character, dignity and integrity patrolled the streets of our safe havens and trails of trustworthiness and truth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Virtue, wisdom and commitment that has and will forevermore be saluted and paid homage for all that it accomplished during your sacred life and career where your missions and journeys have been transported to the heavens above to serve as a heroic and loyal angel of boldness and resiliency.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 20, 2023

Character reveals dignity, honesty and integrity. Yours, Officer Cook, was clarity, virtue and wisdom all tied together to make Dade County your beloved community safer once more. Heroism that impacted your family, comrades and friends to be fondly saluted and duly remembered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Truth and trust marching their beats down those trails and paths of unwavering unselfishness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 19, 2023

Creativity leads to diversity and such a heroically dignified man of honor, character and integrity as you always were, Officer Cook, patrolled those dangerous and hotspots where heinousness took place. Such a loyal, cherished and distinguished gentleman who surely deserved to live out your retirement. Your family adored and esteemed just as your past colleagues have never forgotten a man of class, desire, dedication and fortitude all going down the trails and paths of unselfish heart and unwavering vigilance. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Commitment and virtue forever watching over us.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 18, 2023

Justice for all. Officer Cook, the evil man who took you from this earth was devoid of all the humble, honored and heroic traits you solemnly possessed. Dade County was where your uniform and pride of heart, soul and integrity each was loyal, special and very precious as your family remembers you this day and everyday as they gather to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Day. A man who missions were virtue, wisdom and character teaming as one to keep us safe and protected. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 17, 2023

2024 had better be a less violent year for personnel from law enforcement. You gave your life and heroic career, Officer Cook, over forty-four years ago in order for peace and missions of dignity, integrity and character to take their honest shapes. A man so versatile, visionary and valuable as a loyal, esteemed and cherished comrade to so many brothers and sisters who donned a uniform of substance and goodwill. Virtue and trust so truthfully blended together to form paths and trails of unwavering and unselfish diligence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 16, 2023

You pulled perseverance, proficiency and pride together as one unit, Officer Cook, all heroically honorable, dignified and full of integrity, character and loyal and treasured commitment given to Dade County and its folks. God has a multitude of spectacular angels all heroism, virtue and wise beyond their years of service and protecting our lawful peace and safety. We salute you and will never forgot the man of ingenuity, intuition and intelligence. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 14, 2023

We rise to the occasion and follow our purposeful passions in life. You followed the trails and paths, Officer Cook, of heroic truth and trust which sustained your career of dignity, character, commitment and integrity. They all lent their hands of humility, heart and cherished loyalty. To serve and to protect mankind is not for every living being and you contemplated and thought about this. You will never be overlooked nor forgotten for your morally wise exploits. An angel who hovers over his family who carries you and your blessed legacy of virtue and acumen in their hearts and minds. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A first class man, a gallant gentleman who fought tooth and nail for us serenity and safe shelters.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 13, 2023

Class is honor. Dignity is loyalty, devotion and dedication. Integrity is how you perform your tasks of danger with character, composure and commitment to truth and trust. Heroism is surely how you'll continue to be solemnly honored and saluted Officer Cook, for six years of cherished service to all Dade County. Your esteemed and beloved community where you gave your life and career in order for peace and enhancement to bless our homes while God blesses your respect, faithful and most sincerely diligent soul and heart. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. We walk the sidewalks because of the paths and trails of justice you paved for other public servants to follow in.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 12, 2023

Christmas will arrive shortly and you, Officer Cook, will certainly be thought of as your family gathers to celebrate. That handsome smile missing all these decades because of a mad man stealing your life and career from under you. God has plans for us and He needed an angel of acumen and sanctity who was polite, down to earth and exceedingly dignified while keeping your composure preserving the dignity, integrity and character of all who live in Dade County. Just a gentleman blessed with a heroic heart and soul and a spirit of adventure that flies high every second in the heavens above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Loyalty, character and true trust were your models of consistency.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 11, 2023

A man who rose to the challenge despite staring down evil here in Dade County to protect its citizens. Says a lot about you, Officer Cook, a gentleman truly blessed by excellent character, trusted and true dignity, allegiance and the integrity that was sterling to compliment your consummate and stellar commitments and convictions. Now and forever adored, beloved and a man cherished by his loving family and most faithfully dedicated comrades of the past. Badge#1664 was virtue, sacred trails and paths blazed for other loyal and heroic servants to travel in. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Honor and diligence went hand in hand with unwavering and unselfish performance.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 11, 2023

A man above the crowd. A gentleman heroic, honored and revered by all mankind and your family, Officer Cook. Dade County was where you lived, fought the toughest of wars over violence and sadly where you made the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the character, dignity and integrity of the words of prosperity, safety and freedom for all. True trails of justice were paved by a really trusted and battle tested veteran. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Where your sacred and loyal missions went so did wisdom, vision and versatile virtue go. An angel to be saluted forevermore.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 8, 2023

It takes heroic guts, grit and humble gallantry to set peace and serenity where it rightfully belongs. And that was your love of life, Officer Cook and chosen field of professional yearning right here in Dade County. Where acumen, awareness and advanced honesty, reverence and total character and commitment supported your true and trustworthy trails and paths of unselfish and unending pursuits you gave the ultimate sacrifice one never ever overlooked nor forgotten as you are to be saluted for wisdom, loyalty and the esteem that all goes in molding and shaping a public servant's life. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Angels above forever hover over us and you have been sadly in heaven for the last forty-four years instead of enjoying your retirement with your beloved wife, Karen. An inspiring young man of intuition, ingenuity and articulate intelligence.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 7, 2023

Determination and devotion went down your trails and paths, Officer Cook, where your heroically humble honor, integrity and dignity went to protect Dade County. A true gentleman trusted with service and saving lives as your career and life ended so terribly because of one man's evil. Always loyal, cherished and esteemed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 6, 2023

A gentleman's heart, soul and gallantry were always on the line ready and able to serve and to protect the people of Dade County, Your honor, integrity and commitment to morals, character
and dignity, Officer Cook, shall forever remain cherished as we salute your sacrifice that paved the paths of perseverance and trails of truth and justice for all mankind. Never a more appreciative angel of heroic effort and superior reliability, resourcefulness and the faithful dedication put to the test on the streets your patrolled for six years of ingenuity, intelligence and intuition spread far and wide. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 5, 2023

Officer Cook, your respectful manner and shall forevermore be remembered and saluted for their loyalty, virtue and esteem. They along with integrity, dignity and excellent character saved Dade County from more harm. Serenity and safe trails were paved by your unwavering and unselfish truth and trust. A man among men who was mature and consummate in every direction you travelled. Your family and department pays homage to your kind and humbly blessed heart and soul never to be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Intuition, ingenuity and intelligence that made your life, family and the world go around. Badge#1664 was diligent and devoted.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 4, 2023

You were Dade County's warrior in shining armor, Officer Cook and your family's beloved hero of honor, humility and a heart filled with character, dignity and integrity to be forever saluted and paid homage to. The source of relevance and resiliency who never gave up nor into violence and evil that you took an oath to protect us. Our pursuits and trails were your consummate vigils over us and they were truthful and so loyally trustworthy. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. When commitment and conviction were called to line up they stood solemnly as one unit.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

December 3, 2023

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