Now this is what a real mom looks like...
The tough Baltimore mother being hailed as "Mom of the Year" for smacking some sense into her rioting son says she's no hero for the beatdown that would likely be frowned upon in the eyes of her church.
"I thought, 'Oh my god. My pastor is going to have a fit,'" Toya Graham, 42, said Wednesday during her morning interview with CBS News.
She said she "beat the s--t out of him" because she feared for his life.
"He will not be a Freddie Gray," Graham wrote on Facebook shortly after she was caught on camera chasing the boy and demanding he tear off his ski mask.
The furious mother rushed out of a doctor's appointment to the site of riots, where she found her 16-year-old son Michael with a group of youngsters throwing bricks at cops.
"To see my son come across the street with a rock in his hand, I think at that point I just lost it," she said on CBS.
She zeroed in on the teen — who was wearing all black and a mask that covered most of his face — after recognizing his baggy sweatpants and locking eyes.
"It was something about those sweatpants he had on. And we made eye contact," Graham said. "And at that point, you know, not even thinking about cameras or
anything like that."
for scolding her son for taking part in riots and ripping him off the streets.
The unemployed mom, who recently lost her job, said she warned her son not to participate in the protests the night before.
"I said to him, 'Michael, go to school. Don't go,'" she recalled.
Instead, she found herself slapping him three times on the side of his head as she attempted to tear the mask off his face.
"Take that motherf-----g mask off! Take it off!" she shouted, chasing him down as he tries to flee, according to the video. "You gonna be out here doing this dumb s--t."
Toya Graham speaks on CBS This Morning about pulling her teenage son Michael from the riots in Baltimore in April of 2015.
Graham said she was trying to shield her son from harm, adding that "a lot of his friends have been killed."
"My intention was just to get my son and have him be safe," she said.
The teen has not yet apologized for deliberately disobeying her, but his friends have offered some advice:
"Michael, you need to give your mother a hug," Graham said.
sources: nydailynews