Police arrested a self-identifying neo-Nazi suspected of defacing Temple Beth Shalom with swastikas on Spokane’s South Hill earlier this month. Raymond Bryant, 44, was jailed Thursday morning on suspicion of malicious harassment and malicious mischief, both class C felonies. Police responded to a call at the synagogue on East 30th Avenue on the morning of Feb. 8 after graffiti was reported on one side of the building and on the Holocaust memorial there. The police department collected paint samples from the building, and surveillance footage showed a lone man wearing gloves and a mask at the scene. Spokane Police Department detectives executed a search warrant Thursday on Bryant’s Airway Heights home and then arrested him. At a Black Lives Matter protest in September, Bryant toted a poster with a large swastika advertising his and a friend’s neo-Nazi organization. He stood with several other neo-Nazis. Bryant and Eddie McBride had shaved heads and wore black boots and mostly black clothing. There, Bryant said he is a “proud Nazi” and “racist,” and his position “needs to be more extreme.”Bryant and McBride said they believe the Holocaust never happened. In fact, historians estimate more than 5 million Jews were murdered during the genocide, according to “Quantifying the Holocaust,” an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.
via spokesman: Police arrest neo-Nazi suspect in Temple Beth Shalom vandalism