Officer Found Guilty of Assault for University of Maryland Student Beating
A trial for two Maryland police officers accused of assaulting a college student with batons during a basketball game resulted in one of the officers being found guilty of second-degree assault. Both law enforcement officers faced first- and second-degree assault and police misconduct charges for the beating, which occurred at the University of Maryland in College Park, and video showed a now 24-year-old student being struck with batons during a fight that broke out at a March 3, 2010 basketball game.
The student suffered several injuries, including a concussion, and was among 33 people arrested at the game for disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. The Maryland police officers claimed that the college student attacked them and sustained his own injuries when he was kicked by one of their horses, but the charges were dropped against the student when a video was released that contradicted these statements.
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