A Baltimore woman Toya Graham, has smacked her only son in public for participating in a riot.

The angry mum not concerned that cameras were on her smacked her 16-year-old son, Michael who was wearing a mask on the head.

“That’s my only son and at the end of the day I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray” said Toya Graham when she was interviewed. “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. I’m a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don’t play that. “”He knew he was in trouble. He said when ‘I seen you,’ he said, ‘ma, my instinct was to run.'”

A curfew has been announced in the city of Baltimore due to riots caused after 25 year old Freddie Gray died after sustaining multiple injuries to his spine while in police custody in early April.