Authorities examine amazing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol police officer has going pendant, and prosecuting policemen are investigating an incidental -- took on television -- in which military officers handling billies get a University of Maryland student, officials told Tuesday.

Government also are look into text files filed by police forces in the case that appear to belie the video recording, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis said.

The television was shot Butt 3 After the Maryland men's basketball team out Duke. In the telecasting, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Numerous pupils are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the military officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two ship's officers on ahorseback. Later On a brief exchange, two police officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the land. A third officer joins the first one, and the three discover McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the land as different pupils scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he made a concussion, a badly swollen limb and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office named wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that omissible was not shown on the television, Weidenfeld same. On Donat's body, the imprint of the officers' truncheons could be seen, she read. 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 had his bell rung," she very.

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

Self-confidence arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an officer and disorderly deal. text files filed by laws allege that the one were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted ship's officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Offices intervened.

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

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

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 policemen, Weidenfeld read.

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

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

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

Ellis said he did not know whether the officer frozen wrote the charging text files. Because the ship's officers on the telecasting were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime 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 told. "We experienced no idea. It's kind of taken us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend military officers as they go identified."

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

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

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