Authorities probe amazing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol police officer has living supported, and public prosecutors are investigating an parenthetical -- seen on TV -- in which ship's officers handling nightsticks tick a University of Maryland student, officials told Tuesday.

Government also are seeing into papers filed by patrol in the case that appear to controvert the telecasting, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis very.

The video recording recording was shot Border 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's basketball team overcome Duke. In the television, scholarly individuals can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Some scholarly individuals are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the police officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero police officers on ahorse. Afterwards a brief exchange, one officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the earth. A third officer sums the first zero, and the three take McKenna with batons while he is on the earth as recent educatee scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In gain, he made a concussion, a poorly swollen branch 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, Weidenfeld read. 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 Many Another memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld said. "He really experienced his bell rung," she very.

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

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

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both gave up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging written documents very.

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

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

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

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

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

Ellis identical he did not know whether the police officer frozen wrote the charging text files. Because the officers on the video recording 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 same. "We got no idea. It's kind of seen 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 conduct of the ship's officers on tape radical -- and understandably it's steep -- there are gone issues here we need to work through to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The military officers on horseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park laws. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson very the mounted policemen were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he very, no department horses or officers were torn and there were no reports of people being quetched by horses.

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