lets say you have a son you grew him up good but all through your lives you encountered racism constantly. your son friend who you knew was a good kid going to school one day with your son and the police chased him down. beat him senseless and they didn't even say why they were doing it. they try to lock him up but they couldn't make it stick. he goes home and his mom tries to do something but nobody listens, a riot starts because they beat another kid who actually died, your son and his friend join behind you back. can you finish that of ?

Making excuses for criminal behavior enables criminal behavior.

Making excuses for criminal behavior enables criminal behavior.

We are talking Baltimore here. This is a predominately black city, mostly black police, mostly black city council.

If he experienced racism to that degree it was probably from his own kind, or something he heard, or watched a TV anchor talk about.

no1 from his own kind??? no2 there is a lot of black on black crime. here in England too. but there is a lot of white on white crime. Indian on Indian crime, Chinese on Chinese crime. racism is racism. anyone of any colour can be a racist.

And this justifies or explains his presence to a criminal activity somehow?

This child and his mom didn't look the type to have suffered any racism to that degree. It looked as if mom had walked there. Imagine his surprise if she hadn't come and he went home to a house in flames with a mother worried frantic for his safety..... to find he was one of those causing it.

Were would his justification for rioting against racism be then?

It appears a lot of his neighbors lost their homes, cars and businesses..... and that is justice?

This is what the mom had to say. Just saw it on FACEBOOK


BALTIMORE — A mother who was caught on video smacking her 16-year-old son around after he threw objects at police said when they made eye contact, he knew he was in trouble.

"I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don't play that," Toya Graham, a single mother of six, told CBS News. "He said, when 'I seen you,' he said, 'ma, my instinct was to run.'"

Graham received wide praise from people on social media and even the Baltimore police commissioner, who said more parents should have taken charge of their children like Graham after the riots started.

Graham said she saw her only son wearing a hoodie and mask amid the protesters demonstrating just hours after a funeral for Freddie Gray, a black man who died after suffering an unexplained spinal injury in police custody. violence is wrong on every level.

"At that point, I just lost it," she said. "I was shocked, I was angry, because you never want to see your child out there doing that."

Graham said she and her son watched news coverage of the riots together. And then the images of her reaction went viral. Comments started appearing on her son's Facebook page, many in support of her, she said.

"Friends and everybody making comments and saying, 'you know, you shouldn't be mad at your mother, you should give her a hug,'" Graham said.

She hopes it will be a teachable moment.

"And by him seeing everything what's going on I just hope, I'm not sure, but I hope that he understands the seriousness of what was going on last night," she said.

what i dont get is, if their wasnt a riot going on and she did that, people would be trying to have her charged with child abuse.

didn't look the type ? wow do I look the type does anyone. that there sounds extremely ignorant. you don't know them!!! a lot of people have been hurt nobody can deny that. racism hurts everyone that is the point.

violence is wrong on every level.

Your views make you sound like an irrational, angry black woman who is also bitter about your experiences and that of your family. I can understand your hatred and anger against the system and certain people. But breaking the law, hurting one's community and railing against authority is only going to make matters WORSE. This is called BEING PLAYED. You played right into the hands of the police state because they were hoping that is exactly how you would react. Now, they have a reason to further control you. That mother is a heroine! She not only saved her son from an arrest and/or criminal record and prevented him from being just another statistic, she outsmarted the police state and the system by not playing into their hands by choosing a peaceful resolution instead. You could learn a lot from her, Mommy. Don't let your bitterness and hatred blind you to the higher cause and only make matters worse. The violence and looting which you are bitterly and ignorantly encouraging or condoning never solved anything. USE YOUR HEAD. And teach others to do the same. I fear that you are teaching your children that protesting this way is good and you are only contributing to the problem with your angry attitude. Wake up and wise up and listen closely to the words in this thread. A learning experience for you. Choose wisely for your own sake.