Offices investigation beating television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol military officer has existing supported, and prosecuting policemen are investigation an omissible -- got on TV -- in which military officers handling billies got a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials read Tuesday.

Regime also are seeing into text files filed by police force in the case that appear to oppose the video recording, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis same.

The telecasting was shot Demonstrate 3 Later On the Maryland men's hoops team unsuccessful Duke. In the television, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as policemen in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Numerous educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting recording of the officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one officers on ahorse. After a brief exchange, zero officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the found. A third officer joints the first two, and the three discover McKenna with billies while he is on the establish as different students scatter.

McKenna had a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, said Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he got a concussion, a ill swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred doubts to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incidental was not shown on the TV, Weidenfeld told. On Donat's body, the imprint of the military officers' nightsticks 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 identical. "He really given his bell rung," she identical.

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

Authorities arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly carry. documents filed by patrol allege that the zero 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 kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers identical.

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

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

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

The department's internal affairs unit is seeing into and will assist Prince George's County public prosecutors in their probe, he very.

Ellis read he did not know whether the ship's officer frozen wrote the charging documents. Because the military officers on the telecasting recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are seeing 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 experienced no idea. It's kind of taken 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 deal of the military officers on tape excessive -- and clearly it's extraordinary -- there are other issues here we need to work up to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The police officers on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. 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 said, no department horses or policemen were offended and there were no reports of mass being kicked by horses.

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