Lt. Robert Meier, and eight other individuals who had responded to a shooting, and hostage situation in City Hall, in 1998, received the Medal of Valor at a ceremony. However, they were quickly upstaged by award recipient Gregory Preece, the former sergeant who had presided over the shooting of Tyisha Miller. The same man, who had used racist language after the shooting had also apparently been involved in incident involving three officers, who had beaten a Latino man, and had thrown him in Lake Evans. The man had contacted the supervising sergeant, allegedly Preece, who had failed to alert his superiors, about the incident. Preece received more applause and cheers than any other award recipient that day. A sad moment, not lost on activists, who realized that little had really changed since the tragic shooting of Tyisha Miller over two years previously. A department that was moving in a direction of greater racial inclusion and tolerance could not applaud a man, who had used racial s