COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) – Federal authorities are joining local probes into the beating of a University of Maryland student by three Maryland police officers.
A video of the March 3 incident in College Park during a rowdy celebration of a basketball victory has led to the suspension of at least one Prince George’s County police officer.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that FBI agents will review evidence and the Justice Department will determine if federal civil rights laws were violated.
Terrell Roberts, an attorney for the student in the video, told CBS’s “The Early Show” on Wednesday that an officer pulled off his client’s bandage and told him not to report his injury.
Roberts says even if his client made a bad decision to walk toward officers, it doesn’t excuse the officers’ actions.
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