Neo-Nazi in really bad rabbi costume busted after harassing people inside NashvilleJewish center
A nitwit neo-Nazi poorly disguised as an Orthodox rabbi tried to barge into a Nashville Jewish Community Center while livestreaming and was immediately busted, police said.Travis Keith Garland, 31, a member of the Goyim Defense League neo-Nazi group, was caught on security cameras entering the Gordon JCC last week with the ridiculous-looking fake beard and rabbi costume as he asked to meet with local religious leaders.When he was told that no one was around, the antisemite attempted to pass through security before he was kicked out by a guard, with a follow-up investigation uncovering details of his plan to harass those inside the “jew building,” local NewsChannel 5 reported.Prosecutors said Garland’s Telegram channel featured his video and messages where he boasted about the antisemitic disgusting.“I wore the rabbi costume and went into their jew building harassing them … and the dude freaked out,” Garland allegedly posted under the username, “kitchenwaffen.” Another message saw Garland use a racial slur against Asians when describing the guard who confronted him at the Gordon JCC, police added.
Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk noted that the Telegram profile described Garland as a person who is “cooking jews and feeding them to n—rs.” Along with harassing the JCC, Garland had reportedly used his fake costume earlier this month to livestream at the Nashville Holocaust Memorial to mock the attempted genocide that claimed more than six million Jewish lives under the Nazi regime, the local outlet reports.“We’re here at the memorial for all the Holocaust survivors or victims — if they’re even real,” Garland said in the video, promising another stunt “in the coming days.” The neo-Nazi has been charged with criminal trespassing and assault, and he’s being held in Blount County on a $250,000 bond.
Court documents show Garland was previously convicted in 2012 on aggravated assault charges, and in 2015, he pleaded gu...