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4 Officers Suspended in Beating of Student
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Four Prince George's County officers were suspended in the beating of a University of Maryland student.
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Originally Posted by WTOP
Numerous videos have shown police repeatedly striking a student with batons following a University of Maryland basketball game against Duke University. The tape has outraged people across the country. Police have identified Sean McAleavey as the officer who filed the charging documents against two students, including Jack McKenna who was beaten. Prosecutors later dropped the charges against the students. McAlveavey is one of the officers suspended.
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WTOP (15 April): Four Prince George's Police officers suspended
WTOP (14 April): FOP: Don't pass judgment on beating video
WTOP (19 April): No displinary action yet against officers in U. Md. case
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Originally Posted by WTOP
Channel 7 reports that 60 hours of video was handed over to the attorneys -- except for a 90-minute disc from the camera with a view of where McKenna was beaten. The disc covered the time from midnight to 1:30 a.m. on March 4. University of Maryland spokesman Milree Williams blamed a technical error on the missing tape. But the disc, which was was found just hours later, was missing two minutes of footage, officials say. "The server that manages those cameras automatically overwrites at a certain point, and it just overwrote and it didn't give us a opportunity to copy this particular piece," Williams says.
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WTOP (21 April): Missing tape in UMd. beating surfaces
WTOP (21 April): U-Md. officials probe missing video in beating
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Originally Posted by WTOP
Nearly two months after University of Maryland students were arrested following the Maryland-Duke basketball game, police don't appear to be in any rush to take the cases to court. Prince George's County Police have not been willing to give the names of the nearly 30 people arrested for disorderly conduct, citing privacy concerns.... Prince George's County Police Maj. Andy Ellis says this case is being handled like all others. But he's unwilling to say whether the citations have yet been forwarded to the district court, which would enter the citations into the public record system.
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WTOP (28 April): Arrested UMd. students say police prolonging case
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