Government probe ticking video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces military officer has existing supported, and public prosecutors are investigations an incident -- took on telecasting -- in which military officers managing batons beat a University of Maryland student, officials said Tuesday.

Offices also are seeing into documents filed by patrol in the case that appear to contradict the video recording recording, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis very.

The television recording was shot March 3 After the Maryland men's hoops team out Duke. In the TV, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as policemen in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Many Another scholars are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the police officers and the celebration.

The video recording shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two officers on ahorse. Later On a brief exchange, one officers on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the found. A third police officer connects the first zero, and the three move McKenna with truncheons while he is on the found as gone scholarly individuals scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, same Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he given a concussion, a poorly swollen weapon and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incidental was not shown on the TV, Weidenfeld said. On Donat's body, the imprint of the officers' nightsticks could be seen, she same. 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 got his bell rung," she identical.

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an officer and disorderly deal. written documents filed by laws allege that the one were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military 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 text files very.

The telecasting 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.

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

"The charging papers certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis very. But he said, "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 made 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 inquiring and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting police officers in their examine, he said.

Ellis same he did not know whether the ship's officer frozen wrote the charging documents. Because the ship's officers on the video were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime are attending 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 had no idea. It's kind of caught 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 carry of the officers on tape far -- and clearly it's exaggerated -- there are last issues here we need to work finished to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The officers on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson said the mounted officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he said, no department horses or military officers were wounded and there were no reports of someones being quetched by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's family line told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Much of these references ought to go to jail. ... Some ought to merely be booted off the force, and the remnant should be properly checked to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."