Offices examine amazing video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police ship's officer has existing supported, and prosecuting officers are investigations an parenthetic -- got on video -- in which ship's officers maintaining truncheons tick a University of Maryland pupil, officials same Tuesday.

Government also are attending into papers filed by laws in the case that appear to oppose the video recording, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis very.

The TV was shot Demonstrate 3 After the Maryland men's basketball team voted down Duke. In the television recording, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as policemen in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Any students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the police officers and the celebration.

The television shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero ship's officers on hogback. Later a brief exchange, two police officers on foot slam McKenna against a surround and he falls to the found. A third military officer connects the first two, and the three strike McKenna with truncheons while he is on the found as recent scholarly someones scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, same Sharon Weidenfeld, a secret investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he experienced a concussion, a poorly swollen subdivision and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office named heads to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Self-confidence arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an ship's officer and disorderly conduct. documents filed by police force allege that the two 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 documents very.

The telecasting does not show McKenna striking the mounted military officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the beating was taking place. The written documents tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld same 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 ship's officers, Weidenfeld told.

"The charging papers certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis same. But he identical, "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 policemen 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 look into and will assist Prince George's County public prosecutors in their investigation, he identical.

Ellis identical he did not know whether the police officer supported wrote the charging written documents. Because the ship's officers on the television were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Authorities are looking into who was on duty that night and where officers were at the time to determine who was involved.

"We didn't know about this videotape until it came out yesterday morning," he read. "We got no idea. It's kind of taken us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend military officers as they went identified."

He added, "Not only is the deal of the policemen on tape exaggerated -- and distinctly it's exaggerated -- there are other issues here we need to work over to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same the mounted policemen 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 hurt and there were no reports of souls being kicked by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's category told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Many Another of these roles ought to go to jail. ... Any ought to merely be booted off the force, and the remainder should be properly prepared to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."