Meant to mention previously that the Cohen "Seven Dwarfs" photo came about after Cohen, on behalf of police organized a public "intervention" against a local electronics store shop owner, Alfred Pearson, who was known to rip people off and who had recently managed to turn a dispute over an inflated unpaid bill into a lien against an elderly widow.

When the widow couldn't pay, Pearson was able to foreclose on her house, buy it dirt cheap and then rent it back to her at an inflated rate. She complained to the police who organized to pay her rent and look into legal action. Pearson then sued the police captain who was helping the widow. Big mistake.

The captain was friendly with Mickey Cohen. During a protest at the electronics shop over Pearson's shoddy merchandise and dirty tactics, Cohen's boys took the opportunity to give Pearson a pretty vicious beating. They then left and were not stopped by the captain's men. But rookies from another precinct supposedly saw them make an illegal u-turn rolleyes and hauled them in. An amateur photographer took pics and left them with the LA Times. The editors didn't realize initially who the men were but when Cohen showed up to try to buy the prints they put two and two together.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.