In the first incident, St. Louis Park man has been charged with assault on a police officer.
Derrick Deandre Bailey, 29, has been charged with fourth-degree assault on a police officer, providing a false name of a true person, obstructing the legal process with force, a separate charge of obstructing the legal process and theft.
A court document makes these allegations:
The incident began when police officers responded to a call about a theft in progress at about 9:30 a.m. Dec. 3 at Cub Foods, 3620 Texas Ave. S. Two individuals told police that a man had attempted to take merchandise out of the store and pushed his phone in the face of one of the individuals who tried to talk to him about the unpaid merchandise.