Authorities probe amazing video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, laws officer has going supported, and prosecutors are attending into an incidental -- caught on television -- in which policemen maintaining nightsticks got a University of Maryland pupil, officials identical Tuesday.

Offices also are depending into written documents filed by laws in the case that appear to controvert the television, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The TV was shot Butt 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's basketball game team voted down Duke. In the video recording recording, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Numerous students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the police officers and the celebration.

The video recording shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two military officers on horseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, one ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the land. A third officer joins the first two, and the three discover McKenna with batons while he is on the ground as different pupils scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he experienced a concussion, a poorly swollen subdivision 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 incidental was not shown on the television, Weidenfeld identical. 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 Great memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld said. "He really given his bell rung," she very.

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly transmit. written documents filed by police force allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Government intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both gave up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers said.

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

prosecuting policemen 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 identical. But he identical, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the police officer who wrote the documents got a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the incidental, who provided information.

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

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

Ellis read he did not know whether the military officer frozen wrote the charging written documents. 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 policemen were at the time to determine who was involved.

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

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

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

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