Regime examine ticking television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol military officer has lasting frozen, and prosecutors are depending into an parenthetical -- seen on TV -- in which ship's officers wielding nightsticks beat a University of Maryland pupil, officials read Tuesday.

Offices also are looking into text files filed by laws in the case that appear to belie the telecasting recording, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis said.

The TV was shot Exhibit 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball team unsuccessful Duke. In the telecasting, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as police officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Great pupils are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the military officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two policemen on ahorse. Later a brief exchange, one police officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the land. A third police officer connects the first one, and the three take McKenna with billies while he is on the establish as other scholarly mass scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In increase, he experienced a concussion, a poorly swollen arm and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred enquiries 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 ship's officers' truncheons could be seen, she read. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Great memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld told. "He really had his bell rung," she very.

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly conduct. documents filed by police force allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Governments intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kvetched by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files told.

The TV 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 papers tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld said Tuesday.

prosecuting policemen dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she very. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the policemen, Weidenfeld said.

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

Read the charging written 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 probe, he very.

Ellis identical he did not know whether the officer supported wrote the charging text files. Because the police officers on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Self-confidence are looking 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 read. "We had no idea. It's kind of got us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend officers as they go identified."

He added, "Not only is the deal of the military officers on tape radical -- and clear it's extraordinary -- there are different issues here we need to work complete to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson read the mounted military officers 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 torn and there were no reports of mass being given up by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's class told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Great of these theatrical roles ought to go to jail. ... Many Another ought to merely be booted off the force, and the end should be properly trained to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."