Government examine ticking video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces police officer has lasting supported, and prosecutors are investigating an incidental -- taken on telecasting -- in which policemen wielding billies tick a University of Maryland scholar, officials told Tuesday.

Government also are seeing into documents filed by police in the case that appear to negate the video, Prince George's County patrol Lt. Andy Ellis read.

The television was shot Demonstrate 3 Later the Maryland men's basketball game team frustrated Duke. In the television, students can be seen celebrating the win as ship's officers in riot gear and on ahorseback are nearby. Much scholars are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the policemen and the celebration.

The television shows a scholar identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two police officers on ahorseback. After a brief exchange, zero military officers on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the earth. A third ship's officer joints the first zero, and the three hit McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the ground as gone pupils scatter.

McKenna had a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he given a concussion, a severely swollen arm and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office named doubts to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly carry. text files filed by patrol allege that the two 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 given up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents said.

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

public prosecutors 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 identical.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the TV," Ellis read. But he identical, "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 text files experienced a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the incident, 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 officers in their investigation, he very.

Ellis read he did not know whether the police officer supported wrote the charging documents. Because the military officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are attending into who was on duty that night and where military officers were at the time to determine who was involved.

"We didn't know about this videotape until it came out yesterday morning," he read. "We got no idea. It's kind of seen us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend policemen as they went identified."

He added, "Not only is the transmit of the ship's officers on tape exaggerated -- and clear it's excessive -- there are gone issues here we need to work through to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The police officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson told the mounted military officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he very, no department horses or military officers were hurt and there were no reports of mass being kicked by horses.

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