Regime examine amazing video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force military officer has living pendant, and public prosecutors are investigating an omissible -- saw on TV -- in which policemen handling billies beat a University of Maryland pupil, officials very Tuesday.

Governments also are looking into written documents filed by police force in the case that appear to controvert the video recording, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis very.

The telecasting was shot Demonstrate 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's hoops team voted down Duke. In the TV, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as ship's officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Some students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the ship's officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two military officers on ahorse. After a brief exchange, zero policemen on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the land. A third police officer sums the first one, and the three take McKenna with billies while he is on the establish as last students scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that required eight staples to close, very Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In increase, he had a concussion, a bad swollen arm 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 parenthetical was not shown on the video recording, Weidenfeld very. On Donat's body, the imprint of the military officers' batons could be seen, she read. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Much memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld very. "He really had his bell rung," she read.

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

Governments arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly take. written documents filed by police forces allege that the one 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 back by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents told.

The telecasting recording does not show McKenna striking the mounted officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the perplexing was taking place. The papers tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld very 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 officers, Weidenfeld same.

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting," Ellis read. But he told, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the officer who wrote the written documents given a "miscommunication" with officers involved in the omissible, 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 prosecutors in their examine, he very.

Ellis told he did not know whether the officer suspended wrote the charging documents. Because the officers on the telecasting were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Authorities are seeing 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 very. "We got no idea. It's kind of saw us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend police officers as they gone identified."

He added, "Not only is the conduct of the military officers on tape radical -- and clear it's excessive -- there are other issues here we need to work complete to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The policemen on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police forces. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson identical 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 policemen were injured and there were no reports of individuals being quetched by horses.

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