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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Kness grants a narcotics officer’s motion for summary judgment on a Black Illinois man’s false arrest and malicious prosecution claims. The officer, looking to confirm the identity of and then arrest a Black drug dealer known as “Buzzy,” had another policeman pull over a suspect on a bogus traffic stop. The narcotics officer, after getting the suspect’s name, concluded it was Buzzy and charged the man on drug dealing offenses. At trial, a jury acquitted the man of all counts, and he claimed in his subsequent civil suit that the narcotics cop had accused him of being Buzzy simply because he was another Black man in the same age range. Despite this, the court believes the narcotics officer was justified in charging the man falsely identified as Buzzy, and also finds that the narcotics officer has qualified immunity.