Authorities investigation amazing telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force military officer has following frozen, and public prosecutors are looking into an omissible -- took on telecasting -- in which military officers maintaining batons tick a University of Maryland scholar, officials same Tuesday.

Regime also are attending into documents filed by police force in the case that appear to controvert the TV, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis said.

The telecasting was shot Border 3 Later the Maryland men's basketball game team voted out Duke. In the TV, pupils can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Great educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting recording of the military officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one ship's officers on ahorseback. Later a brief exchange, zero military officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the earth. A third police officer joins the first zero, and the three move McKenna with truncheons while he is on the establish as different scholarly mass scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he given a concussion, a ill swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office named enquiries to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

Weidenfeld discovered the television 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 police forces allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Offices intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both given up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents said.

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

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

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

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigating and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting policemen in their examine, he very.

Ellis told he did not know whether the ship's officer pendant wrote the charging documents. Because the officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are seeing into who was on duty that night and where ship's officers were at the time to determine who was involved.

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

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

The ship's officers on horseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson read the mounted officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he very, no department horses or ship's officers were wounded and there were no reports of individuals being given up by horses.

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