Offices probe beating telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, laws military officer has living pendant, and prosecutors are investigation an incidental -- took on video -- in which police officers handling batons get a University of Maryland student, officials told Tuesday.

Regime also are seeing into written documents filed by patrol in the case that appear to controvert the television recording, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The TV was shot Border 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball game team out Duke. In the telecasting, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Some scholarly masses are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the policemen and the celebration.

The TV shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero police officers on hogback. Later On a brief exchange, two policemen on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the establish. A third military officer connects the first two, and the three strike McKenna with batons while he is on the land as gone scholarly individuals scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that involved eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he had a concussion, a bad swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned enquiries to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Government arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly deal. documents filed by patrol allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Government intervened.

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

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

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 ship's officers, Weidenfeld told.

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

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

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

Ellis very he did not know whether the officer dependent wrote the charging documents. Because the military officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Self-confidence are seeing 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 same. "We had no idea. It's kind of caught us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend officers as they went identified."

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

The police officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same the mounted police officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he told, no department horses or officers were wounded and there were no reports of people being kvetched by horses.

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