Regime probe amazing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces military officer has living frozen, and public prosecutors are attending into an incidental -- seen on telecasting -- in which military officers wielding billies drawn a University of Maryland educatee, officials said Tuesday.

Governments also are seeing into written documents filed by laws in the case that appear to controvert the telecasting recording, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis said.

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

The TV shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero policemen on hogback. After a brief exchange, two ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the found. A third ship's officer sums the first two, and the three take McKenna with batons while he is on the establish as gone students scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, said Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he made a concussion, a ill swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned questions to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that secondary was not shown on the TV, Weidenfeld very. On Donat's body, the imprint of the officers' nightsticks could be seen, she said. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Any memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld read. "He really experienced his bell rung," she said.

Weidenfeld discovered the television and would say only that it was shot by another University of Maryland scholarly person.

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly conduct. written documents filed by police allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted ship's 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 written documents told.

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

public prosecutors dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she identical. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the ship's officers, Weidenfeld said.

"The charging written documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the TV," Ellis read. But he very, "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 got a "miscommunication" with police officers involved in the parenthetical, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigations and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting ship's officers in their investigation, he said.

Ellis read he did not know whether the ship's officer dependent wrote the charging written documents. Because the military officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are looking 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 same. "We experienced no idea. It's kind of got us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend military officers as they turn identified."

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

The officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson told the mounted ship's officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he identical, no department horses or ship's officers were offended and there were no reports of mass being kicked by horses.

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