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The ACLU of Illinois filed suit early last year on behalf of Jaylan Butler, a then-19-year-old member of the Eastern Illinois University swim team. He was mistaken for a shooting suspect when he stepped off the colleges bus at an Interstate 80 rest area near East Moline in February of 2019. “We filed this case after our client Jaylan — an innocent college student returning from a swim meet on his team’s bus — was taken to the ground and had a gun held to his head by po...