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   When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more ||||| This Baltimore mom saw her son throwing rocks at police on television. 
   
   That didn't sit well with her. 
   
   The video shows the mother repeatedly striking her boy, chasing him as he tries to walk away. 
   
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   The story behind the viral video, told by the photographer who captured the images shared millions of times across the world: ||||| Baltimore TV station WMAR reported that a mother saw her son on television taking part in protests and went to confront him, slapping him. (AP) 
   
   A woman seen berating and hitting a black-clad teenager, later confirmed to be her son, has been hailed as “mom of the year” after her intervention on the streets of Baltimore was caught on video. As violence flared up across the city on Monday, the woman, who was identified as Toya Graham on Tuesday afternoon, was filmed telling her child to “take that f—— mask off.” 
   
   [I was knocked to the ground by Freddie Gray rioters, then helped to my feet] 
   
   Graham spoke to CBS News about the video, which initially went viral with little context. In the interview, the single mother of six tells the network that she intervened out of concern for her 16-year-old son’s safety. 
   
   “That’s my only son, and at the end of the day, I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray,” Graham said. “But to stand up there and vandalize police officers, that’s not justice.” 
   
   Fox Business contributor Charles Payne drew attention to the video in a tweet on Monday. (Fair warning, basically every video in this article will contain profanity.) 
   
   Mom of the year in Baltimore…my mother would have did same thing…https://t.co/vjxpD7hNwq — Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) April 28, 2015 
   
   By late Monday, videos of the incident were so widespread that Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts brought it up in an overnight news conference. 
   
   “And if you saw in one scene, you had a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed,” Batts told reporters. “I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight. I think these were youth coming out of the high school and they thought it was cute to throw cinder blocks at the police department and address it that way.” 
   
   [About that Baltimore mom…] 
   
   Baltimore’s ABC affiliate, WMAR, caught the encounter on camera but initially provided only this as an explanation: 
   
   This Baltimore mom saw her son throwing rocks at police on television. That didn’t sit well with her. The video shows the mother repeatedly striking her boy, chasing him as he tries to walk away. 
   
   The clip emerged alongside widely broadcast images of violence that dotted some sections of Baltimore on Monday afternoon and evening. 
   
   https://instagram.com/p/1_jHvQJfGC/ 
   
   As The Washington Post has reported, it doesn’t appear that the violence stemmed from organized protests over the death of Freddie Gray, who died of a severe spinal injury suffered while in police custody. His funeral was held Monday. 
   
   [A Freddie Gray primer: Who was he, how did he die, why is there so much anger?] 
   
   Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said late Monday that the day’s violence was the result of “thugs who always want to incite violence and destroy our city. Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs who, in a very senseless way, are trying to tear down what so many have fought for.” 
   
   Although the video of one mom expressing frustration over the violence may stand out as a positive moment in an increasingly grim situation, there have been others. On Tuesday morning, volunteers took to the streets to help clean up the mess left behind. 
   
   Large group of volunteers cleaning up that burnt out CVS in Baltimore pic.twitter.com/84BVzu7SWS — justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) April 28, 2015 
   
   [This post, initially published at 8:22 a.m., has been updated to include information from a CBS interview with Toya Graham] 
   
   For live coverage of the unrest and events in Baltimore, follow The Post’s live blog here. 
   
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   BALTIMORE, Maryland -- A woman in Baltimore is being praised for what she did after she spotted her son taking part in the rioting in the streets of Baltimore. 
   
   A WMAR news photographer videotaped her berating her son for taking part in the violence. 
   
   The woman can be seen repeatedly slapping her son and yelling at him. The woman was reportedly watching TV when she saw her son throwing rocks at police. 
   
   The woman got the attention of Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Watts. 
   
   "If you saw on one scene, you had one mother who grabbed her child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed," Watts said. "I wish I had more parents that took charge of their kids out there tonight." 
   
   Fox News contributer Charles Payne called the woman "Mom of the year" in a tweet. It was retweeted dozens of times and favorited by more than 100 people. ||||| Police have called on help from the media after seven officers were injured in Baltimore on Monday in riots following the death of Freddie Gray. 
   
   But some residents aren’t having it with the protestors, including a woman who is featured in four Instagram videos as she’s removing from the trouble a young man dressed in all black. 
   
   Here’s the first video, where she confronts him. (Editor’s note: Strong language and violence): 
   
   Another angle: 
   
   That awkward moment your mom catches you rioting #baltimore #baltimoreriots #prayforthiskid A video posted by Karla H. (@ine3) on Apr 27, 2015 at 2:07pm PDT 
   
   Then there’s this: 
   
   Finally: 
   
   #prayforbaltimore #baltimorepurge #baltimoreriots A video posted by Keezy (@yaasss_keez) on Apr 27, 2015 at 12:33pm PDT 
   
   The first video inspired a Twitter user to comment that the woman was the “Mom of the year”. 
   
   More users chimed in: 
   
   THIS is how you stop "protests". Call his mama. https://t.co/GmPkUsRseS — Bristradamus (@BHugh_215) April 27, 2015 
   
   @sectionsix way to go Lady — Vietnam Veteran (@Seabee40Carl) April 27, 2015 
   
   More video from #baltimore #freddiegray mom stopping her child from acting up https://t.co/z9p8b32ytz — andresflava (@andresflava) April 27, 2015 
   
   The demonstrations, riots and other fallout after the death of resident Freddie Gray has inspired a hashtag called #PrayForBaltimore.
target: – A Baltimore woman who reportedly saw a young man she knew (some speculate it's her son) on TV throwing rocks at police during city protests took matters into her own hands—literally, per WMAR. A video shows her yesterday dragging a teen sporting a face-covering sweatshirt away from the crowds, hitting him in the face, and yelling, "Take that f---ing mask off!" and "You wanna be out here doing this stuff?!" The kid skulks away with her hot on his tail, and the video—shown from various angles at Independent Journal Review—went viral on social media, with some, like Fox News contributor Charles Payne, calling her the "mom of the year," per WGN. "My mother would have done the same thing," Payne tweeted. Meanwhile, at a press conference last night, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said, per the Washington Post, "She started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight." (The Orioles COO has his own controversial take on the protests.)