Regime probe ticking video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police police officer has existing dependent, and prosecuting policemen are depending into an incident -- caught on television -- in which policemen handling truncheons tick a University of Maryland pupil, officials identical Tuesday.

Offices also are seeing into papers filed by patrol in the case that appear to contradict the video, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The video was shot March 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball team frustrated Duke. In the telecasting, educatee can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Any pupils are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the military officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching one military officers on horseback. Later On a brief exchange, two police officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the earth. A third police officer unions the first two, and the three discover McKenna with truncheons while he is on the found as gone scholarly masses scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that involved eight staples to close, very Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator working for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he experienced a concussion, a bad swollen limb and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related heads to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly deal. written documents filed by patrol allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted ship's officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Government intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both given up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files identical.

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

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

"The charging written documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting," Ellis read. But he read, "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 papers got a "miscommunication" with military officers involved in the incident, who provided information.

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

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

Ellis said he did not know whether the officer dependent wrote the charging documents. Because the ship's officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are looking 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 given no idea. It's kind of caught us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend police officers as they turn identified."

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

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

In a statement Monday, McKenna's house told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Some of these parts ought to go to jail. ... Numerous ought to just be booted off the force, and the remnant should be properly trained to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."