Shanghai punishes cop who downed woman, child in parking ticket row

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai's police department has punished an officer who shoved a woman and the toddler she was holding to the ground in an incident captured on video, sparking a torrent of online criticism.

It follows another incident when police in northern China detained a man for complaining about the food at a hospital, which drew widespread online condemnation. The detention was later ruled inappropriate and several officers were punished, state media reported.