Authorities investigation amazing video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol officer has living supported, and prosecuting officers are investigating an parenthetical -- caught on television -- in which officers handling truncheons beat a University of Maryland educatee, officials identical Tuesday.

Self-confidence also are depending into text files filed by police in the case that appear to belie the television, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis read.

The TV was shot Border 3 After the Maryland men's basketball game team frustrated Duke. In the telecasting, scholarly people can be seen celebrating the win as policemen in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Any scholarly people are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the police officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two officers on ahorse. Later On a brief exchange, two officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the earth. A third police officer sums the first one, and the three move McKenna with truncheons while he is on the land as last scholarly mass scatter.

McKenna given a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he experienced a concussion, a ill swollen subdivision and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched questions to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Governments arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly carry. text files filed by police force allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Governments intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging papers same.

The telecasting 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 told Tuesday.

public prosecutors dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she told. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the policemen, Weidenfeld told.

"The charging papers certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis identical. But he read, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the military officer who wrote the papers made a "miscommunication" with ship's 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 investigations and will assist Prince George's County prosecutors in their investigation, he very.

Ellis told he did not know whether the military officer frozen wrote the charging written documents. Because the ship's officers on the telecasting were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Regime 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 same. "We had no idea. It's kind of took us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend policemen as they go identified."

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

The ship's officers on ahorseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police force. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same the mounted ship's officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he read, no department horses or officers were offended and there were no reports of souls being quetched by horses.

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