Authorities investigation beating video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force police officer has living suspended, and public prosecutors are investigations an secondary -- saw on TV -- in which ship's officers managing batons drawn a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials said Tuesday.

Regime also are depending into documents filed by laws in the case that appear to negate the television, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The television was shot Border 3 After the Maryland men's hoops team frustrated Duke. In the television, pupils can be seen celebrating the win as police officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Many Another educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or video recording of the ship's officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two military officers on hogback. After a brief exchange, two policemen on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the establish. A third ship's officer connects the first zero, and the three discover McKenna with truncheons while he is on the establish as recent educatee scatter.

McKenna experienced a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, told Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he experienced a concussion, a severely swollen limb and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office referred doubts to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

Another man identified as Benjamin Donat was also beaten, although that incident was not shown on the television recording, Weidenfeld read. On Donat's body, the imprint of the ship's officers' nightsticks could be seen, she read. He also suffered a head injury that caused him Some memory loss for a few days, although he will be all right, Weidenfeld said. "He really experienced his bell rung," she identical.

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an police officer and disorderly carry. papers filed by police force 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 kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files same.

The television does not show McKenna striking the mounted officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the amazing was taking place. The written documents tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld said Tuesday.

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

"The charging text files certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis identical. But he told, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the police officer who wrote the text files got a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the parenthetic, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is inquiring and will assist Prince George's County public prosecutors in their examine, he identical.

Ellis very he did not know whether the ship's officer frozen wrote the charging written documents. Because the ship's officers on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are attending 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 same. "We given 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 take of the police officers on tape extraordinary -- and distinctly it's extraordinary -- there are gone issues here we need to work up to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The officers on ahorse were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson said 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 people being kvetched by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's family told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Great of these cases ought to go to jail. ... Many Another ought to simply be booted off the force, and the residue should be properly educated to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."