Government probe perplexing television of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police ship's officer has existing suspended, and public prosecutors are inquiring an incidental -- taken on telecasting -- in which officers handling batons tick a University of Maryland educatee, officials read Tuesday.

Governments also are attending into documents filed by police in the case that appear to controvert the TV, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The telecasting was shot Butt 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball team overcome Duke. In the TV, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as police officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Some pupils are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or video recording of the ship's officers and the celebration.

The video recording shows a scholar identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one officers on horseback. Later On a brief exchange, one police officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the establish. A third police officer joints the first zero, and the three strike McKenna with truncheons while he is on the found as last students scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that required eight staples to close, very Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he made a concussion, a badly swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incident was not shown on the telecasting recording, Weidenfeld said. 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 Any memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld said. "He really got his bell rung," she very.

Weidenfeld discovered the television and would say only that it was shot by another University of Maryland scholarly person.

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an officer and disorderly take. papers filed by laws allege that the zero 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 given up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging written documents same.

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

prosecuting military officers 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 read.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the video recording recording," Ellis told. But he told, "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 documents got a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the omissible, who provided information.

Read the charging papers 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 investigation, he very.

Ellis said he did not know whether the ship's officer pendant wrote the charging papers. Because the police officers on the TV were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Self-confidence are attending into who was on duty that night and where police officers 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 experienced no idea. It's kind of saw us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend ship's officers as they go identified."

He added, "Not only is the transmit of the military officers on tape radical -- and distinctly 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 hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same the mounted military officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he identical, no department horses or officers were offended and there were no reports of mass being given up by horses.

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