Tavarez later apologized, but he has not exactly won citizenship awards since.
Four and a half months later, police picked up Vincent Jenkins, a 43-year-old black man who would never qualify for a good citizenship award.
Ron Artest has been nominated for the NBA's top citizenship award.
There will be no corporate citizenship awards for the Delphi Corporation, the nation's largest auto parts supplier, which recently filed for bankruptcy.
He was made an honorary citizen of São Paulo, Brazil and also received a national Brazilian citizenship award.
She is the 2009 recipient of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's World Citizenship Award.
In 2003 he received the Medical Society State of New York's President's Citizenship Award.
Commander of the Order of "Citizenship Award" (Spain, 1996)
He served on numerous executive boards and won several citizenship awards, including the 1990 Founders Award from the St. Jude's Hospital Foundation.
At 12 years of age she was awarded a Citizenship Award from the City of Stirling Council for her all round academic performance and community involvement.