Regime investigation perplexing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force police officer has living dependent, and prosecuting attorneys are investigating an incident -- seen on telecasting -- in which policemen handling batons tick a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials identical Tuesday.

Self-confidence also are attending into text files filed by police force in the case that appear to controvert the video recording recording, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis same.

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

The telecasting shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero policemen on horseback. After a brief exchange, one military officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the ground. A third military officer joins the first one, and the three take McKenna with truncheons while he is on the found as different pupils scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that involved eight staples to close, said Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In increase, he made a concussion, a badly swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related heads to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that secondary was not shown on the TV, Weidenfeld read. On Donat's body, the imprint of the police officers' billies could be seen, she identical. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Some memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld told. "He really made his bell rung," she very.

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

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

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

The television does not show McKenna striking the mounted ship's officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the ticking was taking place. The documents tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld very Tuesday.

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

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the TV," Ellis told. But he said, "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 documents got a "miscommunication" with police officers involved in the parenthetical, who provided information.

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

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

Ellis read he did not know whether the police officer suspended wrote the charging text files. Because the military officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Authorities are look 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 very. "We given no idea. It's kind of saw us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend ship's officers as they go identified."

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

The police officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson identical 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 military officers were torn and there were no reports of individuals being kicked by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's family line told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Any of these characters ought to go to jail. ... Great ought to but be booted off the force, and the residual should be properly trained to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."