Offices investigation ticking telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police police officer has following dependent, and prosecuting officers are investigation an incident -- taken on telecasting -- in which officers managing batons get a University of Maryland pupil, officials very Tuesday.

Government also are looking into papers filed by police force in the case that appear to oppose the telecasting recording, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis same.

The telecasting was shot Process 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's basketball team out Duke. In the telecasting, pupils can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Any educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the police officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero police officers on hogback. Later On a brief exchange, zero policemen on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the land. A third military officer joints the first one, and the three hit McKenna with truncheons while he is on the earth as other educatee scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he experienced a concussion, a poorly swollen weapon and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incident was not shown on the telecasting, Weidenfeld told. On Donat's body, the imprint of the policemen' billies 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 had his bell rung," she said.

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

Governments arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly conduct. text files filed by police forces allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Offices intervened.

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

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

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 police officers, Weidenfeld told.

"The charging written documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting," Ellis identical. But he very, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the military officer who wrote the papers got a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the parenthetic, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is inquiring and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting police officers in their probe, he read.

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

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

The policemen on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson told the mounted policemen were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he identical, no department horses or policemen were injured and there were no reports of individuals being gave up by horses.

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