Government probe amazing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol police officer has existing dependent, and public prosecutors are investigation an incidental -- took on video recording recording -- in which military officers handling batons beat a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials read Tuesday.

Government also are look into documents filed by police forces in the case that appear to contradict the video recording, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The television was shot Demonstrate 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's hoops team frustrated Duke. In the video recording recording, students can be seen celebrating the win as ship's officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Some students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the policemen and the celebration.

The TV shows a student identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one policemen on hogback. Later a brief exchange, one officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the establish. A third ship's officer connects the first zero, and the three move McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the found as gone educatee scatter.

McKenna given a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, same Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he experienced a concussion, a bad swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Self-confidence arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly deal. papers filed by police forces allege that the one 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 identical.

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

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

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the TV," Ellis identical. 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 written documents got a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the omissible, 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 public prosecutors in their probe, he told.

Ellis same he did not know whether the officer pendant wrote the charging written documents. Because the police 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 policemen were at the time to determine who was involved.

"We didn't know about this videotape until it came out yesterday morning," he said. "We experienced no idea. It's kind of took us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend policemen as they went identified."

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

The police officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson very 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 people being kvetched by horses.

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