article_snippet.sent: (CNN)This week, social media heralded as #motheroftheyear Toya Graham, the Baltimore single mom who pulled Toya Graham son, who was holding a brick, away from the scene of a riot.
article_snippet.sent: A video of Toya Graham yanking young Michael from a group of protesters -- and subsequently pummeling young Michael with Toya Graham fists and a few slaps upside the head -- went viral.
article_snippet.sent: Many called Toya Graham a hero: a mother determined to stop the cycle of violence.
article_snippet.sent: And yet, wasn't Toya Graham also promoting violence?
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham own reaction, after all, was to yell, curse and hit.
article_snippet.sent: I don't see Toya Graham as an abusive mother spreading the gospel, or at least the inevitability, of violence.
article_snippet.sent: I don't see Toya Graham as a hero, either.
highlights_snippet.sent: Peggy Drexler: Video of Toya Graham hitting son as Toya Graham drags son from protests has raised questions.
highlights_snippet.sent: Was Toya Graham a hero?
highlights_snippet.sent: Neither, Toya Graham says;