You all remember Freddie Gray right? I
know that he could easily be lost in the amount of Black men and
women being killed by police or in their custody particularly the
last few years. He was the one given the “rough ride” and died in
custody last year. One of the officers that was given the largest
amount of charges was officer Caesar Goodson Jr. One charge was
second-degree depraved heart murder which I'd never heard of an had to
look up. It states that it is “the form of
murder that establishes that the willful doing of a dangerous and
reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils
involved, is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment,
when the harmful result ensues, as is the express intent to kill
itself. This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere
negligence. It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence.”
