Regime investigation ticking video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force officer has existing supported, and prosecuting attorneys are inquiring an incidental -- taken on television -- in which officers wielding batons drawn a University of Maryland pupil, officials very Tuesday.

Governments also are depending into written documents filed by police forces in the case that appear to contradict the telecasting recording, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis same.

The television was shot March 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball game team voted down Duke. In the TV, students can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Many Another scholarly individuals are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the policemen and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a scholar identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero policemen on ahorse. After a brief exchange, zero policemen on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the establish. A third military officer connects the first one, and the three move McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the establish as recent pupils scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he given a concussion, a severely swollen subdivision and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that parenthetical was not shown on the television, Weidenfeld read. On Donat's body, the imprint of the policemen' billies could be seen, she told. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Many Another memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld same. "He really given his bell rung," she read.

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly conduct. written documents filed by patrol allege that the one were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Regime intervened.

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

The television does not show McKenna striking the mounted military officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the beating was taking place. The written documents tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld read Tuesday.

prosecuting ship's officers 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 said.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis same. But he same, "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 papers had a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the incident, 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 prosecuting attorneys in their probe, he told.

Ellis said he did not know whether the police officer frozen wrote the charging papers. Because the officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are depending 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 had no idea. It's kind of caught 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 take of the military officers on tape far -- and understandably it's far -- there are recent issues here we need to work over to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The ship's officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park laws. 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 policemen were torn and there were no reports of people being kicked back 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. ... Great ought to just be booted off the force, and the balance should be properly educated to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."