Justice, though delayed, for beaten student

A year and a half ago, John L. Mckenna, a student at the University of Maryland, was brutally beaten by several riot control officers after a win of the school's basketball team. It was not until a full eighteen months later that this poor victim was finally given justice.
McKenna was in a cheerful, carefree mood when he was assautled by three Prince George's police officers on his way home from the university's win against Duke. The policemen attacked him unjustly and without probable cause; he was carrying no weapons at the time and didn't act aggresively towards the officers at all. Despite this, the men attacked him and continued to beat McKenna around the head even after he was lying on the ground unconscious.
This author, who correctly believes that this is a gross malpractice of justice, clearly lets his views known by using phrases like "sickening incident" and "deeply disturbing" to describe the police department's response to the event. He also thinks that the Chief of Police, Mark A. Magaw, reacted well to his officer's crime. He infers that under such management, the police force that produced such controversial offense can be recreated to be a fair, just department like the general population expects it to be.
The author, being from the Washington Post, assumes his readers are mainly Washington residents. He calls the basketball team the Terrapins without bothering to elaborate where they are from.
Overall, I think this article was well written. The author clearly cares about this cause enough to keep up with the Chief-of-Police's actions and reponses to this event. The article puts some interesting questions in the reader's mind, and the author ends with the positive speculation that with such leadership the police force will overcome some of the corruption that is clearly entangled in it today.   


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/justice-though-delayed-for-beaten-student/2011/09/21/gIQAWohVnK_story.html