Baltimore teen disciplined by mom on camera: I’m ’embarrassed’

The 16-year-old Baltimore teen who received the “slap heard round the world” from his mom for participating in Monday’s riots admits he’s “embarrassed.”

“I understand how much my mama really cares about me,” Michael Singleton said in an interview with “ABC World News Tonight.” “I just got to try to do better.”

Toya Graham, a single mother of six, was praised as “mom of the year” for her actions, which were caught on camera by ABC 2 News.

“As long as I have a breath in my body, you will not be on the streets selling drugs,” Graham told ABC. “You’re just not going to live like that. Not with me.”

“She didn’t want me to get in trouble [with the] law,” Michael acknowledged to CNN. “She didn’t want me to be like another Freddie Gray.”