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ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Authorities on Wednesday charged a man with trying to steal an officer’s gun during a protest last week, then ramming his head into the wall of a police interview room.

Tauren Taylor, of University City, was charged with first- and second-degree property damage, attempting to steal a gun, resisting or interfering with arrest, and fourth-degree assault.

Those charges stem from a Friday night protest of about 40 people on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death outside the Ferguson Police Department.

The night was peaceful until about 11 p.m., when police said they went out to arrest a few people who they said had damaged the department’s gate. Officer Travis Brown was severely injured during one arrest attempt. He remained in critical condition with a brain injury on Thursday.

Taylor’s charging document said he worked with others to disassemble the police department’s front gate during the gathering. The broken portion of the gate was then taken to the middle of the street, police wrote.

After that had happened, Ferguson police said, they went out to arrest the people they said were responsible for the damage.

As an officer attempted to arrest someone else, court documents said, Taylor “grabbed onto” Officer Willie May’s gun and tried to pull it out of the officer’s holster. The officer stopped the arrest, grabbed Taylor and shouted at him, the charging documents say. Taylor then broke free from his grip and “disappeared into the crowd.”

Police arrested Taylor on Tuesday, according to records.

Police said they put Taylor in an interview room at the Ferguson Police Department, where he began to “ram his head into the wall several times” and created two holes in the wall. This prompted the second-degree property damage charge.

Taylor was booked into the ĂŰŃż´ŤĂ˝ County jail early Tuesday. His mugshot shows a large bandage on his nose.

Authorities have set a cash-only $50,000 in the police department property damage case and a $25,000 cash-only bond in the case related to the protest.

Taylor was the sixth person to be charged in connection with Friday night’s protest.

Elijah Gantt, 28, remained in jail Thursday on a $500,000 cash-only bond. Police said he ran into Brown, the injured officer, knocking him to the ground. Gantt was charged with three counts of fourth-degree assault on a special victim, resisting arrest, first-degree assault and property damage.

In addition, ĂŰŃż´ŤĂ˝ resident Emily Davis is accused of third-degree assault on a special victim and resisting or interfering with arrest. Keith Rose of ĂŰŃż´ŤĂ˝, Derrick Robinson and ĂŰŃż´ŤĂ˝ resident Phillip March were all charged with first-degree property damage.

Three other unidentified protesters face additional charges: one for destruction of property in the police department, another for resisting arrest and fourth-degree assault, and another for first-degree property damage.

ĂŰŃż´ŤĂ˝ County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell on Tuesday said those cases were still pending and there would be more information about them “soon enough.”