Government probe perplexing video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force police officer has going pendant, and prosecuting attorneys are inquiring an parenthetical -- caught on video recording recording -- in which officers handling truncheons beat a University of Maryland student, officials read Tuesday.

Self-confidence also are depending into text files filed by patrol in the case that appear to belie the telecasting, Prince George's County police Lt. Andy Ellis same.

The TV was shot Demonstrate 3 After the Maryland men's basketball game team unsuccessful Duke. In the television, pupils can be seen celebrating the win as ship's officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Great scholars are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or video recording of the ship's officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a scholar identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two military officers on horseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, two officers on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the earth. A third military officer unions the first one, and the three take McKenna with batons while he is on the establish as other scholarly someones scatter.

McKenna given a cut on his head that taken eight staples to close, read Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In gain, he given a concussion, a ill swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incident was not shown on the telecasting, Weidenfeld said. On Donat's body, the imprint of the officers' truncheons 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 same. "He really given his bell rung," she read.

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

Governments arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly deal. papers filed by police allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted ship's 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 very.

The TV does not show McKenna striking the mounted police officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the amazing was taking place. The text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld very Tuesday.

public prosecutors dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she read. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the policemen, Weidenfeld said.

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

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

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

Ellis told he did not know whether the military officer frozen wrote the charging written documents. Because the military officers on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are seeing 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 saw us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend policemen as they turn identified."

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

The military officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson told the mounted policemen were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he same, no department horses or ship's officers were wounded and there were no reports of individuals being given up by horses.

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