Baltimore mom who scolded her son during riots is still thinking of his future
The Baltimore mom caught on video smacking her son for participating in last year’s protests says she would do it all over again, but with one caveat.
“I wouldn’t have used so much foul language,” Toya Graham told INSIDE EDITION. “But everything else, when it came down to my son and getting him out from down there, I would have did the same thing.”
One year later, Graham and her son, Michael, have made some life-changing decisions since the riots that followed Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody.
Michael, 16, is enrolled in a Job Corps program to learn how to be an electrician – a vocation both hope will spare him the mean streets of Baltimore.
“I watch mothers on the TV begging for answers (to) why their sons are being killed and I just don’t want to be that mother,” Graham said.
Her son said he understands why his mother dragged him away from last year’s violence and smacked him repeatedly while television cameras rolled.
She loves him. And he loves her, he said.