CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Nine non-African American Cleveland police officers accused the police department of racial discrimination in the aftermath of the deadly Nov. 29, 2012 chase in a federal lawsuit filed late Friday.

The officers - eight white officers and one Hispanic - claim the department has a history of treating non-black officers who shoot black residents "more harshly" than black officers involved in shootings, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio Friday.

The suit was filed on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the deadly chase, when 13 officers fired 137 shots at a Chevrolet Malibu driven by Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

Russell and Williams led police on a high-speed, cross-town chase. More than 90 officers participated in the chase, which ended in a school parking lot in East Cleveland.

Both Russell and Williams were shot more than 20 times. No weapon was found. The city settled a lawsuit brought by the families of Russell and Williams for $3 million.

The officers who fired their weapons were placed on three days of administrative leave and then a period of restricted duty, which is usually 45 days for officer-involved shootings, according to the suit.

Nine of the officers involved in the shooting -- Erin O'Donnell, Wilfredo Diaz, Christopher Ereg, Michael Farley, Cynthia Moore, Michael Rinkus, William Salupo, Brian Sabolik and Scott Sistek -- claim the department violated protocol by ordering the officers back to restricted duty after being allowed to return to the streets in June and July 2013.

The orders prevent the officers from earning overtime pay and relegate them to "boring, menial tasks."

The suit, which does not seek a specific amount of damages, claims the punishment has impaired the officers' professional reputations and caused "emotional distress and mental anguish."

Further, the suit claims the officers should not be held responsible for the shooting because Attorney General Mike DeWine said the incident was part of a "systemic failure" by the department as a whole.

(Note: Read the entire lawsuit in the document viewer below.)

The suit comes during a particularly tense time in the city's recent history, after a rookie officer fatally shot a 12-year-old boy carrying what turned out to be an airsoft gun in Cudell Commons park Nov. 22.

The officer is white. The boy was black.

After the shooting and a grand jury's decision not to charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, protestors stormed onto the Shoreway, shuttering one of the city's main thoroughfares in and out of downtown during rush hour Tuesday.

At a community meeting at Cudell Recreation Center later that night, residents brought harsh questions for city and police leaders.