Government probe beating video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force officer has living suspended, and prosecuting ship's officers are looking into an parenthetical -- taken on telecasting -- in which policemen maintaining truncheons got a University of Maryland pupil, officials identical Tuesday.

Governments also are look into written documents filed by patrol in the case that appear to negate the video, Prince George's County patrol Lt. Andy Ellis very.

The telecasting was shot Border 3 After the Maryland men's hoops team voted down Duke. In the video recording, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as policemen in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Any educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the police officers and the celebration.

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

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a individual investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In gain, he made a concussion, a badly swollen limb and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred questions to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that omissible was not shown on the video recording recording, Weidenfeld said. On Donat's body, the imprint of the policemen' billies could be seen, she said. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Many Another memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld read. "He really experienced his bell rung," she read.

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly carry. text files filed by police forces allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted police officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Governments intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers identical.

The telecasting does not show McKenna striking the mounted ship's officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the amazing was taking place. The papers tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld told Tuesday.

prosecutors dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she same. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the ship's officers, Weidenfeld same.

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

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

The department's internal affairs unit is inquiring and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting attorneys in their examine, he identical.

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

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

The policemen on horseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. 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 said, no department horses or ship's officers were hurt and there were no reports of people being kicked back by horses.

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