Regime probe amazing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force military officer has going pendant, and public prosecutors are seeing into an parenthetic -- seen on telecasting -- in which ship's officers maintaining nightsticks got a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials same Tuesday.

Regime also are looking into documents filed by police force in the case that appear to belie the telecasting, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The TV was shot Demonstrate 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's hoops team unsuccessful Duke. In the video recording recording, students can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Any educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the ship's officers and the celebration.

The video recording shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one policemen on ahorse. Later On a brief exchange, one police officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the ground. A third ship's officer joins the first two, and the three strike McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the ground as other scholarly masses scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that involved eight staples to close, very Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he had a concussion, a ill swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned doubts to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that omissible was not shown on the TV, Weidenfeld very. On Donat's body, the imprint of the military officers' nightsticks could be seen, she very. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Some memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld said. "He really given his bell rung," she read.

Weidenfeld discovered the TV and would say only that it was shot by another University of Maryland scholar.

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly take. papers filed by laws allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Governments intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both given up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents same.

The telecasting does not show McKenna striking the mounted officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the beating was taking place. The text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld identical Tuesday.

public prosecutors dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she told. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the police officers, Weidenfeld said.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis identical. But he told, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the officer who wrote the papers had a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the omissible, who provided information.

Read the charging text files from CNN affiliate WJLA-TV (PDF)

The department's internal affairs unit is investigations and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting attorneys in their examine, he very.

Ellis read he did not know whether the officer suspended wrote the charging documents. Because the military officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are look into who was on duty that night and where officers were at the time to determine who was involved.

"We didn't know about this videotape until it came out yesterday morning," he told. "We had no idea. It's kind of taken us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend officers as they turn identified."

He added, "Not only is the carry of the police officers on tape far -- and distinctly it's exaggerated -- there are last issues here we need to work through to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The ship's officers on horseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson told the mounted military officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he identical, no department horses or ship's officers were hurt and there were no reports of individuals being given up by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's family unit told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Numerous of these theatrical roles ought to go to jail. ... Many Another ought to only be booted off the force, and the balance should be properly taken to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."