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...city's top editors was leading a drive to raise money to defend Chicago cops against charges that they had beaten up reporters during the Democratic National Convention. Although some Chicago editors had treated the police violence gingerly all along, the stand by Jack Mabley, associate editor of Chicago's American, disregarded any sympathy for the abused newsmen and started another caustic press controversy...
When the Chicago police department began to discipline some of its patrol men for their part in the convention dis orders, Mabley took up the cops' cause in his well read daily column. A 30-year veteran of writing sports, television and freewheeling general commentary for Chicago newspapers, Mabley wrote...
...they've started putting the hooks into the policemen. The brass are getting their scapegoats so they can save their own hides." That seemed reasonable enough, but Mabley ignored the possibility that the officers might be guilty and portrayed them as martyrs. "They are under a cloud of suspicion that will dog their entire police careers, even if they are vindicated," he complained. He pleaded with his readers to help find jobs for the suspended...
...Mabley was more outraged when eight officers were indicted by a federal grand jury, five of them for attacking newsmen. He complained that "the enormous power of the Federal Government is being wheeled out against them, and their employer, the government of the City of Chicago, has turned its back on them." By contrast, he predicted, "tens of thousands of radicals will rally behind" the eight demonstrators also indicted. After the radicals stage "huge demonstrations, go on television with their attacks on the government and the courts," Mabley said, they may raise as much as $200,000. He pleaded...
Blurred Vision. In the Daily News, Columnist Mike Royko gently needled Mabley's pitch for big money. "I don't want to feel completely left out," Royko wrote. "That's why I am starting a noninflationary, low-cost fund drive of my very own. About $600 or $700 will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow...