Authorities probe perplexing video recording of Maryland student

A Prince George's County, Maryland, patrol military officer has existing pendant, and public prosecutors are investigating an parenthetical -- got on television recording -- in which ship's officers wielding truncheons beat a University of Maryland scholar, officials read Tuesday.

Offices also are look into papers filed by police forces in the case that appear to belie the television recording, Prince George's County police force Lt. Andy Ellis read.

The telecasting was shot Exhibit 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball team defeated Duke. In the video recording, pupils can be seen celebrating the win as ship's officers in riot gear and on hogback are nearby. Many Another educatee are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or television of the police officers and the celebration.

The TV shows a scholarly person identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two officers on ahorseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, zero officers on foot slam McKenna against a wall and he falls to the land. A third ship's officer connects the first two, and the three move McKenna with billies while he is on the found as last pupils scatter.

McKenna had a cut on his head that took eight staples to close, identical Sharon Weidenfeld, a internal investigator good for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In plus, he given a concussion, a badly swollen weapon system and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office related doubts to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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 police officer and disorderly deal. papers filed by police force allege that the zero were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted military officers and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Government intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both kicked back by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files told.

The telecasting does not show McKenna striking the mounted police officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the perplexing was taking place. The text files tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld said Tuesday.

prosecutors 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 identical.

"The charging documents certainly do not appear to be supported by the television," Ellis very. But he very, "I'm sure it's a stretch to say it's a cover-up," saying it's likely the police officer who wrote the written documents got a "miscommunication" with police officers involved in the secondary, who provided information.

Read the charging documents 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 probe, he told.

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

He added, "Not only is the deal of the ship's officers on tape radical -- and understandably it's steep -- there are different issues here we need to work complete to make sure we're more organized" in such situations.

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

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