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Prince George's County police officials responded quickly when a Post reporter asked about allegations that three or four county officers beat and pepper-sprayed a young man for no reason outside a pizza shop in Largo last month.
The reaction was much different when attorneys for John J. McKenna, a 21-year-old University of Maryland student, said their client was brutalized and falsely charged with assaulting a police officer and a police horse.
A key difference between the cases: McKenna's beating was captured on videotape. His attorney's released on April 12 after the state dropped charges against the student.
In the first case, Maj. Andy Ellis, a department spokesman, said officers used the proper amount of force on Prince A. Duncan-Lollis on the night of March 31.
