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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Schiltz largely grants the city and its law enforcement officials' motion to dismiss the Black motorists and residents' suit alleging that police improperly took their white neighbors' side in an ongoing campaign of racial harassment, particularly in an incident wherein one of the neighbors cut the Black motorist off in traffic, sounded his horn and repeatedly called him by racial slurs and threatened him with violence while following him around town, then fled police when they arrived only for the police to arrest the Black motorist. Claims against the arresting officer survive, since the motorist has adequately identified a similarly situated comparator of a different race, namely the neighbor. They have not, however, adequately alleged that the city and its officials had sufficient roles in the neighbors' harassment campaign to establish continuing violations and therefore extend the limitations period for the individual incidents they allege. A claim against the neighbor also survives.