Regime investigation perplexing video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces ship's officer has going supported, and prosecuting military officers are looking into an parenthetic -- seen on video recording recording -- in which ship's officers wielding nightsticks got a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials same Tuesday.

Governments also are look into written documents filed by patrol in the case that appear to contradict the television recording, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The television was shot Butt 3 After the Maryland men's basketball team overcome Duke. In the TV, scholarly masses can be seen celebrating the win as police officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Great educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the policemen and the celebration.

The television shows a scholar identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero police officers on ahorseback. Later On a brief exchange, zero military officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the earth. A third ship's officer unions the first one, and the three strike McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the land as other pupils scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he made a concussion, a poorly swollen weapon and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Government arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly deal. documents filed by patrol allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted police officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Government intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers 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 text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld told 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 officers, Weidenfeld read.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the video recording," Ellis said. 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 written documents given a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the parenthetical, who provided information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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