Regime probe amazing video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol police officer has living suspended, and prosecuting attorneys are investigations an incidental -- took on video recording recording -- in which officers wielding billies got a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials read Tuesday.

Governments also are seeing into papers filed by police in the case that appear to contradict the television, Prince George's County police forces Lt. Andy Ellis said.

The television was shot Exhibit 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's hoops team overcome Duke. In the video recording, students can be seen celebrating the win as officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Some students are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the policemen and the celebration.

The television shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two military officers on ahorse. Later a brief exchange, two military officers on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the land. A third military officer joints the first zero, and the three strike McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the land as gone students scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator going for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he experienced a concussion, a bad swollen weapon and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office touched interviews to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Government arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an officer and disorderly deal. written documents filed by police force allege that the one were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted police officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Self-confidence intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kvetched by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging written documents told.

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

prosecuting attorneys dropped charges against Donat on Friday and McKenna on Monday, she told. Griffiths is representing both youths, and a lawsuit is planned against the police officers, Weidenfeld very.

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the video recording recording," Ellis very. 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 had a "miscommunication" with officers involved in the secondary, 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 prosecuting officers in their probe, he told.

Ellis told he did not know whether the military officer dependent wrote the charging written documents. Because the police officers on the telecasting recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are attending into who was on duty that night and where ship's officers 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 had no idea. It's kind of taken us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend officers as they go identified."

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

The officers on horseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park police. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson told the mounted military officers were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he very, no department horses or military officers were separated and there were no reports of people being gave up by horses.

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