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A Prince George's County, Maryland, police force police officer has living pendant, and prosecuting attorneys are investigations an parenthetic -- saw on video recording -- in which military officers maintaining batons got a University of Maryland student, officials said Tuesday.

Offices also are look into text files filed by police in the case that appear to controvert the television, Prince George's County patrol Lt. Andy Ellis told.

The television was shot Process 3 Later On the Maryland men's basketball game team voted out Duke. In the telecasting, scholars can be seen celebrating the win as military officers in riot gear and on ahorse are nearby. Much pupils are holding up their cellphones, taking pictures or telecasting of the police officers and the celebration.

The telecasting shows a pupil identified as John "Jack" McKenna skipping down the street and approaching two policemen on horseback. Afterwards a brief exchange, one ship's officers on foot slam McKenna against a paries and he falls to the ground. A third officer links the first zero, and the three take McKenna with nightsticks while he is on the ground as early students scatter.

McKenna made a cut on his head that essential eight staples to close, said Sharon Weidenfeld, a personal investigator making for McKenna's attorney, Chris Griffiths. In addition, he had a concussion, a badly swollen branch and bruises elsewhere on his body. Griffiths' office named wonders to Weidenfeld on Tuesday.

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

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

Offices arrested Donat and McKenna on suspicion of assaulting an military officer and disorderly deal. documents filed by laws allege that the two were causing a disturbance and that they struck mounted policemen and their horses, causing minor injuries, when Offices intervened.

"Arrested 1 and Arrested 2 were both quetched by the horses and sustained minor injuries," the charging text files identical.

The television recording does not show McKenna striking the mounted ship's officer or horse, and the horses were not nearby while the amazing was taking place. The documents tell a "totally fabricated story," Weidenfeld very Tuesday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The policemen on hogback were from the Maryland-National Capital Park patrol. Department spokesman Lt. Stanley Johnson same the mounted policemen were there for crowd control purposes. While "there were a lot of activities" going on that night, he same, no department horses or policemen were wounded and there were no reports of individuals being kicked back by horses.

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