Government probe perplexing telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police police officer has existing dependent, and prosecuting officers are investigating an incidental -- took on telecasting -- in which officers wielding nightsticks beat a University of Maryland educatee, officials same Tuesday.

Government also are looking into text files filed by laws in the case that appear to controvert the television recording, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The video recording was shot Demonstrate 3 After the Maryland men's basketball team frustrated Duke. In the video, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as military officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Great scholars are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the police officers and the celebration.

The television shows a student identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two police officers on ahorseback. Later a brief exchange, two police officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the land. A third ship's officer joins the first one, and the three take McKenna with billies while he is on the earth as recent scholars scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he got 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 parenthetic was not shown on the telecasting, Weidenfeld told. On Donat's body, the imprint of the police officers' truncheons could be seen, she told. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Numerous memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld told. "He really experienced his bell rung," she same.

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

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

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both given up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents same.

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

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

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting recording," Ellis said. But he identical, "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 experienced a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the parenthetical, 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 probe, he told.

Ellis very he did not know whether the officer frozen wrote the charging documents. Because the officers on the telecasting recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Governments 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 told. "We experienced no idea. It's kind of got 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 deal of the police officers on tape extraordinary -- and clearly it's radical -- there are last issues here we need to work over to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

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

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