Government investigation perplexing video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police military officer has been pendant, and public prosecutors are investigations an incidental -- seen on television -- in which ship's officers wielding truncheons beat a University of Maryland scholar, officials said Tuesday.

Government also are look into papers filed by laws in the case that appear to negate the television, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis read.

The video was shot Butt 3 Later the Maryland men's basketball team unsuccessful Duke. In the TV, scholarly masses can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Numerous students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television recording of the military officers and the celebration.

The video recording recording shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero police officers on hogback. Later On a brief exchange, one police officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the earth. A third officer unions the first one, and the three move McKenna with truncheons while he is on the ground as different scholars scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he experienced a concussion, a ill 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 television, Weidenfeld same. On Donat's body, the imprint of the policemen' 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 said. "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 scholar.

Government arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly take. papers filed by laws allege that the one were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted ship's officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Regime intervened.

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

The telecasting 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 text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld same Tuesday.

public 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 police officers, Weidenfeld same.

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

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigations and will assist Prince George's County prosecutors in their examine, he identical.

Ellis said he did not know whether the military officer suspended wrote the charging documents. Because the officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are look 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 same. "We given no idea. It's kind of taken us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend police officers as they turn identified."

He added, "Not only is the transmit of the ship's officers on tape excessive -- and clear it's exaggerated -- there are gone issues here we need to work finished to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

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

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