Authorities investigation perplexing video of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol officer has existing pendant, and prosecutors are inquiring an omissible -- got on television -- in which military officers maintaining nightsticks get a University of Maryland scholarly person, officials said Tuesday.

Regime also are looking into documents filed by police in the case that appear to negate the telecasting, Prince George's County patrol Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The telecasting recording was shot Exhibit 3 Afterwards the Maryland men's basketball game team voted out Duke. In the television, students can be seen celebrating the win as ship's officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Much scholarly people are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or TV of the policemen and the celebration.

The television shows a educatee identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching zero policemen on hogback. Later a brief exchange, zero policemen on foot slam McKenna against a fence and he falls to the earth. A third police officer joints the first one, and the three take McKenna with truncheons while he is on the earth as last scholars scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that wanted eight staples to close, said Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In gain, he experienced a concussion, a ill swollen limb and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office mentioned heads to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Self-confidence arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly deal. text files filed by police force allege that the one 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 documents told.

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 text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld same Tuesday.

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

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the telecasting," Ellis same. But he told, "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 officers involved in the omissible, who provided information.

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

The department's internal affairs unit is investigation and will assist Prince George's County public prosecutors in their probe, he very.

Ellis said he did not know whether the police officer frozen wrote the charging papers. Because the police officers on the video recording were in full riot gear, they could not be readily identified, but Government are seeing 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 said. "We made no idea. It's kind of took us by surprise. As evidence comes out, or we learn more information, we'll suspend ship's officers as they gone identified."

He added, "Not only is the take of the police officers on tape far -- and understandably it's radical -- there are last issues here we need to work over to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

The police officers on horseback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park laws. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson said the mounted 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 individuals being kicked by horses.

In a statement Monday, McKenna's home told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington that "Any of these theatrical roles ought to go to jail. ... Much ought to simply be booted off the force, and the difference should be properly educated to discover that force is not always necessary, and brutality is always wrong."