Authorities probe beating video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer has lasting dependent, and prosecutors are investigations an incidental -- saw on TV -- in which policemen maintaining billies drawn a University of Maryland pupil, officials same Tuesday.

Governments also are depending into written documents filed by patrol in the case that appear to controvert the television, Prince George's County patrol Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The telecasting recording was shot Demonstrate 3 Later the Maryland men's basketball game team defeated Duke. In the TV, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as military officers in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Numerous scholarly mass are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the police officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero ship's officers on hogback. Later On a brief exchange, two officers on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the ground. A third ship's officer unions the first zero, and the three discover McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the ground as other pupils scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In gain, he experienced a concussion, a severely swollen weapon 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 incident was not shown on the telecasting, Weidenfeld read. On Donat's body, the imprint of the military officers' truncheons could be seen, she told. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Some memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld read. "He really given his bell rung," she same.

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly carry. documents filed by patrol allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Self-confidence intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked back by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files very.

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

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

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis very. But he same, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the officer who wrote the papers made a "miscommunication" with police officers involved in the parenthetic, 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 investigation, he very.

Ellis identical he did not know whether the ship's officer pendant wrote the charging written documents. Because the officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are looking 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 said. "We had no idea. It's kind of taken us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend officers as they become identified."

He added, "Not only is the take of the policemen on tape extraordinary -- and clearly it's far -- there are last issues here we need to work finished to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

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

In a statement Monday, McKenna's family told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Many Another of these roles ought to go to jail. ... Numerous ought to only be booted off the force, and the remainder should be properly taken to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."