Government investigation beating video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police forces officer has going supported, and prosecuting attorneys are inquiring an omissible -- took on video recording -- in which officers maintaining batons drawn a University of Maryland educatee, officials read Tuesday.

Government also are looking into text files filed by patrol in the case that appear to oppose the telecasting, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis said.

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

The video shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one military officers on ahorseback. Later a brief exchange, zero military officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the found. A third police officer joins the first zero, and the three discover McKenna with batons while he is on the earth as other educatee scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that involved eight staples to close, very Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he had a concussion, a poorly swollen subdivision and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Authorities arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly transmit. papers filed by police forces allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Self-confidence intervened.

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

The television does not show McKenna striking the mounted police officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the perplexing was taking place. The papers tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld said Tuesday.

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

"The charging papers certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis told. But he told, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the officer who wrote the documents got a "miscommunication" with police officers involved in the omissible, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigation and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting military officers in their investigation, he read.

Ellis said he did not know whether the military officer suspended wrote the charging papers. Because the officers on the telecasting were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are depending 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 given 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 went identified."

He added, "Not only is the deal of the officers on tape far -- and understandably it's radical -- there are recent issues here we need to work through to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The policemen on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same the mounted policemen 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 separated and there were no reports of people being kicked back by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's category told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Much of these cases ought to go to jail. ... Great ought to but be booted off the force, and the difference should be properly trained to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."