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Jason Kessler and three white nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Wednesday against the city of Charlottesville and police officials alleging First and Fourteenth amendment violations.

In addition to the City of Charlottesville, the suit names former Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas and Virginia State Police Lt. Becky Crannis-Curl as defendants.

According to the suit, Kessler, white nationalist group Identity Evropa and the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement and Traditional Worker Party claim the city and police officials did not do enough to protect their rights during last year’s deadly Unite the Right rally and actively prevented them from exercising their rights.

The plaintiffs are being represented by Elmer Woodard, who has represented Kessler and other Unite the Right figures in a slew of recent lawsuits and criminal charges

When members of the Ku Klux Klan descended on Charlottesville in July, 2017, the police protected the KKK members from anti-racist counter-protesters but neglected to do the same at the later Unite the Right rally, the suit claims.