Regime probe ticking video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, laws police officer has living suspended, and prosecutors are investigations an incident -- seen on video recording -- in which police officers managing billies tick a University of Maryland scholar, officials same Tuesday.

Government also are looking into written documents filed by laws in the case that appear to negate the telecasting, Prince George's County laws Lt. Andy Ellis identical.

The TV was shot Border 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball game team unsuccessful Duke. In the TV, students can be seen celebrating the win as military officers in riot gear and on horseback are nearby. Many Another educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the policemen and the celebration.

The television shows a student identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero police officers on horseback. Later On a brief exchange, one ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a bulwark and he falls to the found. A third officer unions the first two, and the three strike McKenna with billies while he is on the establish as early students scatter.

McKenna got a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In accession, he had a concussion, a ill swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office named questions to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Regime arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an officer and disorderly conduct. documents filed by police 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 gave up by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging documents read.

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

prosecuting attorneys 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 very.

"The charging written documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting recording," Ellis said. But he said, "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 documents got a "miscommunication" with policemen involved in the parenthetic, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigation and will assist Prince George's County prosecuting military officers in their probe, he same.

Ellis told he did not know whether the ship's officer dependent wrote the charging written documents. Because the officers on the telecasting were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Offices are attending into who was on duty that night and where policemen 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 made 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 go identified."

He added, "Not only is the carry of the policemen on tape far -- and distinctly it's far -- there are early 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 very the mounted policemen were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he identical, no department horses or police officers were hurt and there were no reports of masses being kvetched by horses.

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