There's a whole lotta context behind that video, and they are 3-dimensional people. I haven't checked up on them in a bit but the mom seemed cool and decent and wasn't exactly proud of that video but more of a "it was something I had to do" situation. Unless I'm misremembering her situation, she was working multiple jobs, one of them as a nurse or otherwise in a similar role in healthcare. She'd gotten home from work and told him not to be out there, and so she went out there and 'got him'. But I think she has a couple other kids who listened, or maybe that's the part I can't recall.
Anyway, local hospital (Johns Hopkins) extended her an offer I believe, and she took it, but then something about the situation fell through, I can't remember. I just remember it was a negative toward them. Maybe it was an offer to him. Anyway, he seemed decent as a kid too, he'd just done the wrong thing that specific day.
If anybody cares enough to research it and see what the current situation is, I'd love to see it. Hope they're doing well.
Didn't phase me a bit because I caught them hands from my mom all the time just for being a dumb kid. We all (meaning the people I grew up with) did. Usually behind closed doors though, but you knew you'd fcked up from the glare and the tone long before you felt the belt or the hand.
Anyway, I wouldn't have caught the hands in that situation though, because people protesting against injustice, nay, ******* GENOCIDE are not the problem. The people committing it and supporting it are.
(and yes, for the unaware, this video is from like 2015)
Edit:
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/mom-seen-disciplining-son-freddie-gray-riots-5-year-update/32288899