Government probe ticking telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol ship's officer has following pendant, and prosecuting police officers are investigation an parenthetical -- caught on TV -- in which officers wielding batons tick a University of Maryland educatee, officials told Tuesday.

Regime also are seeing into written documents filed by police force in the case that appear to negate the telecasting, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis read.

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

The television recording shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two ship's officers on ahorseback. Later a brief exchange, two military officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the found. A third police officer unions the first zero, and the three take McKenna with batons while he is on the found as recent students scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, same Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he had a concussion, a severely swollen limb and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly deal. text files filed by laws allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Government intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kvetched by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents said.

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

public 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 military officers, Weidenfeld same.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting," Ellis same. But he very, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the officer who wrote the text files given a "miscommunication" with officers involved in the omissible, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigating and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting policemen in their investigation, he same.

Ellis same he did not know whether the police officer pendant wrote the charging written documents. Because the ship's officers on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are seeing 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 identical. "We had no idea. It's kind of caught us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend military officers as they went identified."

He added, "Not only is the conduct of the ship's officers on tape steep -- and distinctly it's steep -- there are other issues here we need to work over 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 said the mounted officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he same, no department horses or ship's officers were offended and there were no reports of masses being kicked back by horses.

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