Authorities probe perplexing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, laws officer has existing pendant, and public prosecutors are investigation an parenthetical -- saw on telecasting -- in which military officers managing billies drawn a University of Maryland educatee, officials identical Tuesday.

Government also are looking into papers filed by patrol in the case that appear to negate the video recording recording, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis very.

The telecasting was shot Exhibit 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's basketball team overcome Duke. In the television, educatee 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 of the police officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a student identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero policemen on horseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, two police officers on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the found. A third police officer connects the first two, and the three strike McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the land as early educatee scatter.

McKenna given a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he experienced a concussion, a bad swollen weapon and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched heads to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly deal. text files filed by police force allege that the one were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted police officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Regime intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both quetched by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging written documents told.

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

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

"The charging papers certainly do not appear to be supported by the TV," Ellis identical. But he very, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the officer who wrote the papers made a "miscommunication" with officers involved in the parenthetical, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is looking into and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting attorneys in their investigation, he same.

Ellis very he did not know whether the ship's officer supported wrote the charging papers. Because the policemen on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are attending 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 said. "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 gone identified."

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

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

In a statement Monday, McKenna's class told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Numerous of these parts ought to go to jail. ... Any ought to only 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."