Offices investigation beating television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force police officer has been dependent, and public prosecutors are investigation an incident -- seen on video recording -- in which policemen maintaining billies got a University of Maryland pupil, officials said Tuesday.

Offices also are depending into written documents filed by police in the case that appear to controvert the TV, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis very.

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

The telecasting shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero officers on horseback. Later On a brief exchange, one ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the found. A third ship's officer joints the first zero, and the three strike McKenna with batons while he is on the establish as recent scholarly people scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he got a concussion, a bad swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched questions to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

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

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both gave up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files same.

The television does not show McKenna striking the mounted military officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the perplexing was taking place. The papers tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld told Tuesday.

prosecuting police officers dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she identical. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the officers, Weidenfeld same.

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

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigation and will assist Prince George's County public prosecutors in their probe, he identical.

Ellis read he did not know whether the military officer pendant wrote the charging text files. Because the police officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are seeing into who was on duty that night and where military officers were at the time to determine who was involved.

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

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

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

In a statement Monday, McKenna's category told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Numerous of these theatrical roles ought to go to jail. ... Great ought to merely be booted off the force, and the remnant should be properly developed to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."