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jackjenkins.me
Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch. Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas. Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside his window. Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard. Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas. Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do throughout the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months. He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed "Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents. "Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."
October 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
s-isabelle.bsky.social
You've probably seen this by now but he's Brian Kolp a former prosecutor!!
October 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
ultramod2.bsky.social
Brian Kolp is cool. We love Brian Kolp.
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
newsjennifer.bsky.social
2/ Here's one of the videos of Brian Kolp and his neighbors today in Chicago. "Kolp said. “As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded … it’s upsetting.”
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mandophotos.bsky.social armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · Oct 25
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
newsjennifer.bsky.social
Lots of heroes throughout Chicago including this guy: the one seen on the viral videos barefoot, wearing Chi Blackhawks PJ's & screaming “Nazis!” and “Gestapo!” at ICE agents as they terrorized a Northwest side neighborhood.

Great story from @chicagotribune.com:
Brian Kolp carries tear gas near his home that was used by border patrol officers at the scene where residents say a landscaper worker, a resident of the area, and a woman on a bike were detained on the 3700 block of North Kildare Avenue Saturday Oct. 25, 2025 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) Brian Kolp yelling at ICE wearing his PJ's
October 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
proptermalone.bsky.social
hell yeah, Brian Kolp
October 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
joergspengler.bsky.social
Kolping Deutschland stimmte mit überwältigender Mehrheit dafür, AfD-Mitglieder aus ihrem Verband auszuschließen. 👏
„Das triggert uns am meisten, dass die Migranten für alles, was schiefläuft, verantwortlich gemacht werden, dass gehetzt wird.“ #AfdVerbot ‼️
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kolp...
Kolping Deutschland: AfD-Mitglieder sollen ausgeschlossen werden - Reaktionen
Klaudia Rudersdorf ist Vorsitzende des Sozialverbands Kolping Deutschland, der beschlossen hat, AfD-Mitglieder auszuschließen. Sie bekommt Lob und Mails von Betroffenen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
dhumph.bsky.social
Kolp is the kind of hero we need now, in these times where we feel that heroes are few and far between. We all need to be heroes these days.
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
garysnyder.bsky.social
"I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution. And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway." Brian Kolp.

They did it anyway.

With safeguards gone, it's not what can 'I' do, it is what are we going to do?
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
mabinogi62.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLP...
Treat her right - The Commitments
YouTube video by audioholico
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August 23, 2026 at 3:34 AM
freultwah.bsky.social
Aga ka „AI pilas kaost“, „kolp saatis AI“ ja „AI pilastas OK“.
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
newsjennifer.bsky.social
More from the barefoot, pj's guy on the tear gassing of his Chicago neighborhood:

“Nobody was being violent. No one had weapons,” Kolp said. “Although I wasn’t close to where they used the (tear) gas, I never heard them announce they were going to use it."

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tear gas in old irving neighborhood of chicago shows fumes and a car in the street
October 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
erincikanek.bsky.social
This is the ideal patriot. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

(Article here www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c... )
Brian Kolp, a Chicago resident, carries tear gas near his home that was used by border patrol. He ran out of his house in Blackhawks pajama pants while barefoot to yell at ICE and Border Patrol
October 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
josie.zone
Pajama Pants Guy turns out to be a former prosecutor and gave an interview to the Trib

He really, really gets it

You have to envision yourself resisting so you're ready to resist when the time comes

archive.is/651BA
Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do throughout the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months. He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed "Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents, "Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution, Kolp -said."And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."
October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
newsjennifer.bsky.social
3/ "Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what’s become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside his window."
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what’s become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside his window. Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard. Meanwhile, Kolp’s TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents’ use of tear gas. Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do throughout the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” these last two months. He didn’t even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed “Nazis!” and “Gestapo!” at the agents. “Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren’t openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution,” Kolp said. “And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway.” The chaotic scene came to a head on his front lawn when agents released what Kolp believed to be tear gas, he said, pointing out a canister still sitting on his porch. But he said he didn’t know why agents thought that necessary and alleged they violated the federal judge’s order to give a warning before deploying the chemical. Another video posted in a neighborhood forum shows federal officers kneeling on the back of a man, pinning his face against the ground as people yelled, “He’s a senior citizen.” Agents then placed him in the back of a white SUV. Neighbors and Ald. Ruth Cruz, 30th, said the man was believed to be between 68 and 70. Kolp said the detained man was his neighbor, who lives with his wife. She was still inside the house Saturday afternoon and “pretty upset,” he said. A landscaper and a rapid response team member were also taken into custody, from what Kolp observed. “I have a lot of close contacts within law enforcement at the state, local and federal level, and almost to a person, none of them support these actions,” Kolp said. “As a lawyer, someone who adamantly believes in the rule of law, watching it in open sight in front of my house just be completely eroded … it’s upsetting.”
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
alertainshallah.bsky.social
archive.is/KKsGO

www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kolp...

Al-hamdulillah (Gott sei Dank) 🫶
Kolping Deutschland: AfD-Mitglieder sollen ausgeschlossen werden - Reaktionen
Klaudia Rudersdorf ist Vorsitzende des Sozialverbands Kolping Deutschland, der beschlossen hat, AfD-Mitglieder auszuschließen. Sie bekommt Lob und Mails von Betroffenen.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
juliedicaro.bsky.social
3. Residents were very concerned to see agents acting aggressively towards their neighbors and began to yell at the agents. Ex. 87, Kolp Decl at ¶ 4, 5; Ex. 86, Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 6. 4. According to Brian Kolp, an attorney who “supports law enforcement and represents them,” residents were not doing anything threatening or violent. Id. at ¶¶ 5, 9; Ex. 86, Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 8 (neighbors were not touching agents or threatening them). 5. While leaving the scene after making their arrests, and without any audible warning, agents deployed tear gas. Id. at ¶ 7; Ex. 86, Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 10. One of the canisters caught on fire. Id. See also, Ex. 88 (2025.10.25 video). 6. The federal agents were masked and did not have any identification numbers. Ex. 86, Hotchkiss Decl. at ¶ 13. 7. This experience was terrifying for residents. Id. at ¶ 14. 8. Federal agents violated several provisions of the Court’s Temporary Restraining Order during these interactions including: 1(d) – agents used tear gas on protesters who did not pose an immediate safety threat; 1(e) – agents used tear gas when it was reasonably foreseeable doing so would injure protesters, and doing so was not necessary to stop an immediate and serious threat of physical harm to a person; 1 (h)—agents used force, such as pulling or shoving a person to the ground, tackling, or body slamming an individual who poses no immediate threat of physical harm to others, and which was unnecessary to make an arrest. 1(i) – agents used CS gas without giving two separate and audible warnings; 2 – agents failed to wear visible identification affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed. 2
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
afilamazas.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kolp...
January 29, 2026 at 7:53 AM
chicago.suntimes.com
“These weren’t activists, these weren’t paid protesters, these were literally my neighbors coming out of their homes at 10 o’clock in the morning because they saw lawless agents acting in violent ways,” said Brian Kolp, a former Cook County prosecutor. trib.al/np9nmL8
N.W. Side residents confront ICE agents making arrests, firing tear gas
Angry residents came out of their homes Saturday morning as ICE agents pursued people on foot, deployed tear gas and took three people into custody in the Old Irving Park neighborhood. "It’s up to the community."
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October 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
birgitboellinger.bsky.social
Badenweiler: Der Kurort im Markgräflerland zog viele Schriftsteller an, darunter René Schickele, Annette Kolp, Stephen Crane und natürlich Tschechow, der hier verstarb.

Klein, aber fein: Das örtliche Literaturmuseum.
www.literaturmuseum-tschechow-salon.de/de/
June 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
pnw4me.bsky.social
Changing our mindset for starters. Kolp had already been imagining what he would do/ he’d already decided to do *something*

But we need to swallow the fact that the Feds won’t follow the rules, and verbal reminders won’t deter them. So whatever we imagine must incorporate that very real fact.
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
katelavery.bsky.social
Today's resistance hero, BlackHawk Pajama Guy, is Brian Kolp, formerly a prosecutor for Cook County, according to Chicago Tribune article - link below by @smith816.bsky.social
Brian Kolp, a former Cook County prosecutor, holding a tear gas canister near his home on Oct 25 2025, Chicago Tribune Armando L. Sanchez photo
October 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
magnyglass.bsky.social
Hello guys! :D
I'm alive, don't worry|>
Aaaaaand I have some redesigns of my old object show characters:3
Kolp, Circly, Mark and Muggy

(Guess who is an outcast)
August 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
roofus.bsky.social
I love his work! He did the best Quik Bunny IMHO!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kolP...
Nesquik commercial
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August 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
amwclark.bsky.social
That guy is a former prosecutor with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, out there barefoot in red Chicago Blackhawks pj pants yelling "N@zis"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
Brian Kolp carries tear gas near his home that was used by border patrol officers at the scene where residents say a landscaper worker, a resident of the area, and a woman on a bike were detained on the 3700 block of North Kildare Avenue Saturday Oct. 25, 2025 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
October 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM