Regime examine ticking video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces police officer has living suspended, and public prosecutors are investigation an parenthetic -- got on TV -- in which military officers wielding batons tick a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials told Tuesday.

Offices also are depending into documents filed by laws in the case that appear to negate the television, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis said.

The video recording was shot Border 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball team out Duke. In the video recording, scholarly individuals can be seen celebrating the win as police officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Great scholarly masses are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the officers and the celebration.

The television shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one officers on ahorseback. After a brief exchange, zero military officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the earth. A third ship's officer unions the first two, and the three discover McKenna with truncheons while he is on the ground as last scholarly mass scatter.

McKenna had a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In gain, he experienced a concussion, a severely swollen arm 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 omissible was not shown on the television, Weidenfeld identical. On Donat's body, the imprint of the military officers' batons could be seen, she said. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Great memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld very. "He really given his bell rung," she read.

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

Self-confidence arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly conduct. papers filed by patrol allege that the one 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 gave up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers very.

The TV does not show McKenna striking the mounted military 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 told. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the policemen, Weidenfeld identical.

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

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

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

Ellis identical he did not know whether the ship's officer supported wrote the charging text files. Because the policemen on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are looking into who was on duty that night and where 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 had no idea. It's kind of seen us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend policemen as they become identified."

He added, "Not only is the carry of the policemen on tape radical -- and understandably it's exaggerated -- there are last issues here we need to work through to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The police officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park laws. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson very the mounted policemen were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he said, no department horses or officers were wounded and there were no reports of masses being kicked back by horses.

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