Authorities probe amazing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol military officer has living supported, and prosecutors are seeing into an parenthetical -- caught on telecasting -- in which police officers wielding truncheons tick a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials told Tuesday.

Offices also are seeing into text files filed by patrol in the case that appear to contradict the television recording, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The telecasting was shot Process 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's basketball team unsuccessful Duke. In the telecasting, students can be seen celebrating the win as military officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Many Another pupils are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the ship's officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero officers on ahorseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, one ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the found. A third ship's officer sums the first zero, and the three discover McKenna with billies while he is on the earth as early scholarly people scatter.

McKenna given a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he made a concussion, a ill swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incidental was not shown on the television recording, Weidenfeld identical. On Donat's body, the imprint of the military officers' batons could be seen, she identical. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Any memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld told. "He really got his bell rung," she said.

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

Government arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly conduct. papers filed by police force allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Regime intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers told.

The TV does not show McKenna striking the mounted officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the perplexing was taking place. The written documents tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld very Tuesday.

prosecuting police officers dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she read. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the ship's officers, Weidenfeld said.

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis very. But he same, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the military officer who wrote the written documents got a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the parenthetic, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigation and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting attorneys in their probe, he read.

Ellis said he did not know whether the officer suspended wrote the charging text files. Because the ship's officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are look into who was on duty that night and where policemen 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 experienced no idea. It's kind of saw us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend police officers as they get identified."

He added, "Not only is the deal of the military officers on tape far -- and clearly it's far -- there are different issues here we need to work terminated to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

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

In a statement Monday, McKenna's home told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Many Another of these roles ought to go to jail. ... Any ought to but be booted off the force, and the residual should be properly trained to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."