"Jason Kessler and three white nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations, as organizers of the Unite the Right Rally, filed a suit alleging that Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas and Virginia State Police Lt. Becky Crannis-Curl, by issuing orders not to engage crowds, allowed counter-protesters a heckler's veto that "injured Plaintiffs in a way likely to chill a person of ordinary firmness from further participation in that activity".