Offices probe beating telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force military officer has existing dependent, and prosecuting ship's officers are investigating an incidental -- took on video recording recording -- in which military officers wielding billies get a University of Maryland educatee, officials read Tuesday.

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

The video recording recording was shot Exhibit 3 Later the Maryland men's basketball team out Duke. In the TV, scholarly individuals can be seen celebrating the win as military officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Great students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or video recording of the policemen and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a student identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one police officers on horseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, zero ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the land. A third military officer unions the first two, and the three move McKenna with billies while he is on the ground as different educatee scatter.

McKenna given a cut on his head that involved eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he had a concussion, a bad 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 parenthetical was not shown on the TV, Weidenfeld same. On Donat's body, the imprint of the police officers' nightsticks 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 same. "He really experienced his bell rung," she said.

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

Governments arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly deal. papers filed by police allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Offices intervened.

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

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

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

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the television recording," Ellis same. But he identical, "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 documents made a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the omissible, 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 prosecutors in their probe, he very.

Ellis identical he did not know whether the military officer suspended wrote the charging text files. Because the policemen on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are looking into who was on duty that night and where police officers 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 caught us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend ship's officers as they become identified."

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

The policemen on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park laws. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson read the mounted ship's 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 hurt and there were no reports of souls being given up by horses.

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