Police officer suspended after slamming to ground woman holding child

Footage has emerged from China of a police officer slamming to the ground a woman holding a child.

In the video, which was filmed in Shanghai on September 1, the woman holds a toddler with one arm as she argues with a police officer.

When the woman begins to push the officer, he slams her and her child to the ground hard.

Two passersby rush to help the distressed child as the police restrain her mother.

The police officer has been suspended, according to local news.

Local reports said the confrontation was over a parking infringement.