And There's the ACLU

You knew this was coming:

• “I know there were some questions about us forcing people to get on CTA buses and what I can tell you is this: We didn't force anybody," Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Tuesday. "We directed people to different stops — it’s simply a public safety issue."
  
  But Edwin Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said reports of police funneling groups en masse to express trains were “incredibly troubling.”
  
  “Who made that decision?” he said. “How were decisions made about who was going to be put on that train?”

Channel 2 also had coverage of the little angels.

But here's the usual moron attempting to create a controversy:

• Such tactics are preferable to making mass arrests but they still raise red flags, particularly because the teens involved were all black, said Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who works on civil rights and police accountability issues. “I don’t know what ‘borderline criminal’ means. It is or it isn’t.”
  
  The police strategy may make sense in isolation, but against the backdrop of the city’s long history of discriminatory police tactics, it becomes troubling, he said. “(Police should not) pick on or single out groups on the basis of race for selective treatment or discriminatory treatment. That’s a problem.”

You see here Craig, they weren't singled out because of their race - they were singled out because they were assholes. See the pictures and videos? Just a wee bit uncivilized, certainly disorderly and much of it criminal. If you have actual concrete evidence of gangs of brown, white and Asian teens acting in a comparable manner, we'd love to see it. The media might even run it, especially the white and Asian variety.

Now, if you'd like to work on a way of arresting and processing a few hundred assholes without stripping the city of manpower that falls within your scope of "ACLU -Certified Arresting," well, we're all ears.