KALAMAZOO —

A Kalamazoo Public Safety officer was treated for minor injuries after he was assaulted by a crowd while making an arrest Tuesday evening, police said.

Officer Anthony Morgan stopped a vehicle at the corner of Hotop and Gilbert avenues in the Eastside neighborhood when a passenger, who had outstanding warrants, refused to get out of the vehicle, according to a press release from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety.

The man, 21, yelled for a nearby crowd to assist him, police said.

The crowd then gathered around the patrol car, kicking the vehicle and using bricks to smash its windows. People in the crowd grabbed the officer and one person yelled, “Kill him,” police said.

The man broke free from the officer and the crowd. When Morgan attempted to secure him, “the subject ran towards Morgan with clenched fists,” the press release said. “The officer, fearing assault, struck him with a closed fist.”

Members of the crowd grabbed Morgan again, allowing the man to break free and run into a nearby house.

Responding officers surrounded the house and the man surrendered.

He was arrested on several warrants and additional felony charges stemming from Tuesday’s incident, police said.

A juvenile girl was also arrested for assaulting a police officer.

Morgan was treated at Bronson Methodist Hospital and released.