I’m interested that the police receive due process like anybody else, and that people don’t jump to conclusions based on prejudice, or incorrect information.
I think Erik Scott was a good man with a troubled life, who would have been dead from prescription drug abuse before the age of 40 without detoxification. Since his girlfriend most likely was aiding his drug abuse and his father was in denial, his only chance for survival would have been intervention by the authorities, which was already in progress at the time he died.