Government examine ticking telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police police officer has going pendant, and prosecuting attorneys are investigations an incidental -- taken on television -- in which ship's officers managing batons get a University of Maryland pupil, officials very Tuesday.

Regime also are looking into text files filed by police force in the case that appear to negate the video recording recording, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

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

The television recording shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two police officers on ahorse. Afterwards a brief exchange, two officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the earth. A third ship's officer joints the first two, and the three take McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the earth as last scholarly someones scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, same Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he made a concussion, a bad swollen arm and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred questions to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that parenthetic was not shown on the telecasting, Weidenfeld same. On Donat's body, the imprint of the ship's officers' truncheons could be seen, she told. 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 given his bell rung," she same.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ellis read he did not know whether the ship's officer suspended wrote the charging text files. Because the officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are look 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 very. "We made no idea. It's kind of took us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend military officers as they gone identified."

He added, "Not only is the carry of the ship's officers on tape steep -- and clear it's steep -- there are recent issues here we need to work over to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The police officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same 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 military officers were injured and there were no reports of souls being gave up by horses.

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