Regime examine perplexing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces police officer has lasting frozen, and prosecuting police officers are inquiring an incident -- saw on television -- in which policemen wielding billies got a University of Maryland educatee, officials read Tuesday.

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

The telecasting was shot Demonstrate 3 Later the Maryland men's hoops team voted out Duke. In the video recording, pupils can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Some scholarly mass are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the policemen and the celebration.

The television shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one policemen on ahorse. After a brief exchange, two police officers on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the land. A third ship's officer connects the first two, and the three discover McKenna with batons while he is on the earth as different scholars scatter.

McKenna had a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he given a concussion, a severely swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an officer and disorderly transmit. text files filed by police forces 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 gave up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files said.

The TV does not show McKenna striking the mounted police officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the ticking was taking place. The text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld read 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 very.

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the video recording," Ellis same. But he told, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the police officer who wrote the documents experienced a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the incidental, who provided information.

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

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

Ellis told he did not know whether the officer supported wrote the charging written documents. Because the policemen on the video recording recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government 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 same. "We experienced no idea. It's kind of seen us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend police officers as they go identified."

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

The ship's officers on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson very the mounted police officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he identical, no department horses or police officers were hurt and there were no reports of people being gave up by horses.

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