Over 200 Baltimore residents have been arrested in the past two days due to their involvement in the riots after Freddie Gray suspiciously died while in the hands of police. Many young teens and adults have partaken in said event, and for one guy in particular, he may have his mother to thank for not being behind bars.
Surely by now you've seen mother-of-six Toya Graham chasing after her son and striking him repeatedly after catching him throwing rocks at police officers during the riots Monday. "I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don't play that," says Graham to CBS News.
Her 16-year-old son Michael stated that as soon as he saw his mother approaching him his first "instinct was to run." Toya, who spotted her son despite him being clad in all black and a mask in a sea of people, locked eyes with him and lost it. "He gave me eye contact. And at that point, you know, not even thinking about cameras or anything like that. That's my only son and at the end of the day I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray," said Ms. Graham. "At that point, I just lost it. I was shocked, I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that."
Graham feels that the rioters are going about everything the wrong way and does not want to see any of her children follow suit. Backed by thousands of supporters on social media, Toya hopes other mothers will monitor their sons as well. Watch the viral video above.
Source: CBS News
