Regime investigation perplexing telecasting of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol ship's officer has existing pendant, and prosecuting attorneys are attending into an secondary -- took on video recording -- in which military officers managing truncheons drawn a University of Maryland educatee, officials same Tuesday.

Self-confidence also are seeing into papers filed by police force in the case that appear to belie the telecasting, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

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

The TV shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two ship's officers on horseback. After a brief exchange, zero ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the ground. A third officer links the first two, and the three take McKenna with truncheons while he is on the earth as other students scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, very Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he had a concussion, a badly swollen subdivision and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

Weidenfeld discovered the television 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 military officer and disorderly conduct. text files filed by patrol allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Regime intervened.

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

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

prosecuting attorneys dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she very. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the policemen, Weidenfeld very.

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

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

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

Ellis read he did not know whether the police officer supported wrote the charging written documents. Because the officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are looking 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 told. "We had 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 go identified."

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

The ship's officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson read the mounted police officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he told, no department horses or ship's officers were wounded and there were no reports of souls being kvetched by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's family line told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Numerous of these roles ought to go to jail. ... Much ought to merely be booted off the force, and the balance should be properly taken to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."