Allegations of unconstitutional police intimidation directed against Black Lives Matter activists by members of the Clarkstown police department have survived a motion to dismiss in federal court Wednesday.

While U.S. District Judge Nelson Román of the Southern District of New York did winnow the scope of the group’s First and Fourth Amendment claims—including dismissal of the due-process allegations—a half dozen members of the civil rights organization were allowed to continue to pursue their claims over the department’s actions in 2015 and 2016.

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