article_snippet.sent: Baltimore mother who slapped her son several times and pulled her son out of a protest told CNN on Wednesday Toya Graham wasn't concerned that Toya Graham might be embarrassing her son.
article_snippet.sent: Not at all," Toya Graham told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360˚" in an interview that aired Wednesday night.
article_snippet.sent: The video of Toya Graham yanking Toya Graham son, Michael Singleton, and slapping Toya Graham with a right hand as CNN affiliate WMAR recorded has led to the Internet calling Toya Graham #motheroftheyear.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham told Anderson Cooper that Anderson Cooper saw Anderson Cooper with a brick in her son hand, and Anderson Cooper lost control of Anderson Cooper emotions and told her son to drop it.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham said Toya Graham son told Toya Graham the night before the violence at the mall that something was up.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham told her son then and the next morning not to go.
article_snippet.sent: her son swore to Toya Graham her son wouldn't.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham motherly sense kicked in when Toya Graham heard school had closed early and the mall was shutting down, too.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham went to the mall and focused on the teens who were tossing rocks and bricks.
article_snippet.sent: There her son was, in sweatpants Toya Graham recognized.
article_snippet.sent: her son had a brick in her son hand, and that set Toya Graham off.
article_snippet.sent: I was so angry with her son that her son had made a decision to do some harm to the police officers," Toya Graham said.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham yelled at her son to put a brick down.
article_snippet.sent: Then the camera captured Toya Graham memorable smackdown.
article_snippet.sent: I was there to get my child," Toya Graham said.
article_snippet.sent: Tameka Brown, one of Graham's five daughters, told CNN on Tuesday it wasn't that hard for his mom to spot Toya Graham 16-year-old half-brother.
article_snippet.sent: Toya Graham knows Toya Graham son and picked her son out.
article_snippet.sent: her son said that once they got home from the mall her son understood why Toya Graham pulled her son out of the crowd.
article_snippet.sent: I was embarrassed a little bit, until Toya Graham just started talking to me when we got home," her son said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Video of Toya Graham going to a protest and forcefully removing Toya Graham son went viral, drew a lot of praise .
  