The streets of Baltimore were quieter Tuesday night, a day after vandalism and rioting forced officials to implement a curfew. Today, the Orioles plan to play an MLB game without an audience, and a woman who yanked her son away from potential trouble is making headlines.
The shift in topics is a relief in a city that saw the National Guard deployed and a 10 p.m.-5 a.m. ET curfew instituted after Monday's violence. Despite reports that some people refused to leave the streets and threw objects at police Tuesday night, Baltimore was relatively quiet.
For Michael Graham, 16, a mask and hoodie weren't enough to fool his mother, who spotted him in an unruly group that was throwing rocks at police Monday. In an incident that was caught on video, she grabbed and hit him, yelling at him as she pulled him away from the crowd.
"That's my only son, and at the end of the day I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray," Toya Graham told CBS News, referring to the man whose death after being arrested has caused a furor.
"But to stand up there and vandalize police officers — that's not justice. I'm a single mom, I have six children. And I just choose not to live like that no more. And I don't want that for him."
[For more of this story, written by Bill Chappell, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...n-free-baseball-game]
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