Officers sacked after violent street protest

Three traffic police assistants have been sacked after they sparked a mass protest in which one thousand people poured onto the streets and officers were pelted with bricks.

The incident began in Baiyin city, Gansu province, between traffic police and a cyclist who officials say "failed to stop" at a red light around noon.

According to an anonymous eyewitness, the traffic police and their assistants "pulled Zhang Bing off his bike and beat him until blood was all over his face." Zhang only quarreled with the police when they tried to take him away to wash off the blood, the source said on China News Net.