FERGUSON, Mo. _ A Bellefontaine Neighbors man was charged Monday with trying to light a St. Louis County police car on fire during a protest outside the Ferguson Market.
Charges also were expected against a woman who allegedly punched a Ferguson police officer in the face, breaking his nose.
In the first case, police say Henry L. Stokes, 45, was charged with felony counts of attempting to cause catastrophe and resisting arrest. Bail was set at $25,000.
During the protest, police say Stokes stuffed a napkin in the gas tank opening of a St. Louis County police car and tried to ignite it with a cigarette lighter.
Officers tried to stop him, chased him and arrested him.
Also Sunday, a woman punched a Ferguson police officer in the face and broke his nose during the protest.
Chief Delrish Moss said the officer was trying to arrest a man in the parking lot around 10 p.m.
Moss said he was unsure what led the officer to try to arrest the man during the protest, but that both the man and his girlfriend are in custody.
Moss added that the incident probably was caught on the officer's body camera.
Moss said despite his injuries, the officer wanted to come back to work.
Protesters gathered outside the store Sunday night over the release of a new surveillance video that showed Michael Brown in the store Aug. 9, 2014, several hours before he was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer. About 100 people converged outside the market. Several gunshots were fired nearby shortly before midnight.
The video came to light following the release of a film titled "Stranger Fruit."
The film's creator and narrator, Jason Pollock, and Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, allege that footage in the film shows Brown trading marijuana for Cigarillos with a store clerk there about 11 hours before his fatal encounter with a Ferguson police officer, disproving the police notion that Brown was robbing the store moments before he was killed.
Attorneys for the Ferguson Market allege that the footage in the film was edited and pledged to release the unedited version Monday, which he says shows the store clerk throws what looks to be a baggie containing an unknown substance back at Brown.
Allegations of a marijuana deal never surfaced during local and federal investigations. But the visit and surveillance video were noted in parts of the St. Louis County police report released by Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch following the grand jury's decision in November 2014.
The report notes that at 1:13 a.m., a four-door passenger vehicle parks in front of the business, and black man, presumably Brown, enters the store, alone, and walks to the refrigerated section and "appears to select several items," according to the report.
"He approaches the counter, where he appears to put the items on the counter and have a conversation with the two employees behind the counter. At one point, he pulls an item out of his pocket and tosses it onto the counter. One of the employees picks the item up, examines it and places back on the counter. The individual in the red baseball hat then takes a white plastic bag off of the counter, starts to walk away, returns to the counter, leaves the bag and exits the business," the report states.
Protesters have vowed to return to the market Monday night, Moss said.
"I understand people have frustrations, and I understand people being upset, people have every right to be upset, but one of the things missing here is that a lot has changed since 2014, including a lot of the personnel," Moss said. "This officer who was hurt wasn't here in 2014. I wasn't here in 2014.
