One Prince George's officer convicted of assault, another acquitted in U-Md. beating trial

Washington Post
Oct. 22, 2012

One of the two Prince George’s County police officers shown on video beating an unarmed University of Maryland student after a raucous basketball postgame celebration was acquitted Friday night of all charges against him. The other was convicted of second-degree assault.

After deliberating for nearly seven hours, a 12-member jury of Prince George’s County residents found Officer James Harrison Jr. guilty of second-degree assault for the taped March 2010 beating of student John McKenna, but not misconduct in office.

They found Officer Reginald Baker not guilty of both charges.

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