Government investigation beating video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, laws military officer has going frozen, and prosecuting attorneys are inquiring an parenthetic -- seen on TV -- in which policemen handling batons drawn a University of Maryland educatee, officials said Tuesday.

Regime also are seeing into written documents filed by police in the case that appear to oppose the television, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

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

The telecasting recording shows a student identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two ship's officers on ahorseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, one ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the land. A third ship's officer joints the first zero, and the three strike McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the land as different students scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he made a concussion, a bad swollen weapon and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that parenthetic was not shown on the telecasting, Weidenfeld told. On Donat's body, the imprint of the officers' batons 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 got his bell rung," she same.

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

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

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents read.

The television recording 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 text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld same Tuesday.

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

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the video recording," Ellis identical. But he same, "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 papers had a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the incident, who provided information.

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

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

Ellis same he did not know whether the police officer suspended wrote the charging papers. Because the police officers on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Self-confidence are depending into who was on duty that night and where police 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 made no idea. It's kind of took 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 conduct of the policemen on tape steep -- and clear it's steep -- there are different issues here we need to work over to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

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

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