One Mom’s Reaction to Finding Her Son at a Protest

~ Laura

This morning, I posted a link to a video on Facebook of a woman pulling her kid out of violent protest in Baltimore. Here’s commentary on ABC.  

My first reaction? Damn, that woman is cool. She is fearlessly protecting her son by hitting him upside the head and embarrassing him. While my son is unlikely to be beaten by cops or to be a victim of systemic racism, he is plenty capable of putting himself in dangerous situations. That frontal lobe problem.

The video is going viral. Two different reactions — Motherlode and the Wash Post.

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2 thoughts on “One Mom’s Reaction to Finding Her Son at a Protest”

  1. It makes me sad. She isn’t fearlessly protecting her son. She is expressing a great deal of fear that he will be harmed or killed by the police. The message is keep your head down, don’t attract notice, don’t protest. It is horribly sad that this is what it takes to keep him safe.

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