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Elijah Gantt, 28, was charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault on a special victim, resisting arrest, first-degree assault and property damage. He was being held in custody on a $500,000 cash-only bond. 

He's accused of pushing police Officer Travis Brown down while the officer, who is Black, was trying to arrest Gantt for property damage.

Brown hit his head and was in the hospital Saturday with a "severe brain injury," Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle said during a media briefing.

Ferguson Police Officer Scott Amos wrote in charging documents that he saw Gantt outside the police station "pulling on the gate, in a strong jerking manner."

Amos said he watched as the gate broke and told other officers to arrest Gantt.

The officer then wrote that he watched body camera footage of the officers ordering Gantt to stop because he was being arrested, but Gantt walked away from the officers, who chased him.

Gantt ran behind a car, Amos wrote, and shortly after that he saw Brown attempt to block Gantt's path and arrest him.

"I then later observed the defendant run into (Brown) without stopping or attempting to change his direction, knocking (Brown) over, and causing (Brown) to strike his head on the ground," Amos wrote

Amos said Gantt then tried to run away from two other officers who were trying to arrest him. 

Gantt is accused of kicking both those officers, leaving scratches and bruises on both. 

Earlier during the protest Friday, Gantt told the Post-Dispatch that he wasn't disappointed by the turnout. “It only takes one person to touch other people when you believe in something big,� he said.

Four other people also were charged in connection with Friday's protest.

Authorities said ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ resident Emily Davis was charged with third-degree assault on a special victim and resisting or interfering with arrest. 

Keith Rose of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ was charged with first-degree property damage. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mayor Tishaura O. Jones appointed Rose this year to , which reviews complaints against ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Police. 

Prosecutors also charged Derrick Robinson and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ resident Phillip March with first-degree property damage.

Gantt and Davis were still in custody Saturday afternoon.

Doyle, the Ferguson police chief, said the majority of the people at the Friday night gathering were peaceful and that his officers did not intervene until close to midnight. 

He said the protesters were shaking a fence outside the police station throughout the night.

"We did not even react," he said. "We stayed here and let them shake the fence. That happened several times throughout the night, up until the point that they broke the bottom portions of our fence. They destroyed property on our police department's parking lot. It was at that time I sent out an arrest team to make an arrest for destruction of property."

Namratha Prasad of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report