<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A man's racist rant while mimicking the actions of the gunmen behind the deadly </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi" rel="" target="" title="Bondi"><span>Bondi</span></a><span> terror attack can be put down to drunken stupidity, his lawyer says.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Zayne Jason William McMillan, 22, was seen posing and moving his hands as though he was holding a long-barrelled firearm while on a footbridge at </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi-beach" rel="" target="" title="Bondi Beach"><span>Bondi Beach</span></a><span> on January 31.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two gunmen stood on the same bridge two months earlier and opened fire on a crowd celebrating Hanukkah, leaving 15 people dead and dozens injured in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi-shooting" rel="" target="" title="Australia's deadliest anti-Semitic attack"><span>Australia's deadliest anti-Semitic attack</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-israel-attack-iran-live-updates-march-11-donald-trump-latest-world-news-headline/06bb3cab-63f2-47c3-93cb-0ae650ea1142" target="_blank"><strong><span>US threatens 'most intense day of strikes' on Iran</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>While he was imitating their actions, court documents reveal McMillan shouted "f--- the Jews" before intimidating a man walking with his young daughters.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The girls burst into tears.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>McMillan on Tuesday said he accepted he had been acting stupidly and wanted to apologise for his behaviour.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-terror-attack-impersonators-hateful-tirade/e2ad3c0c-b154-44c9-9bfb-cd3c77831eba" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He is due to be sentenced in April after pleading guilty to three counts of offensive behaviour in a public place and two counts of intimidation over an hour-long drunken tirade.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>McMillan has shown remorse and should be released from custody to address his alcohol and drug issues before then, his lawyer Glen Cremer argued before Waverley Local Court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He accepted the agreed facts of the case were "fairly extreme" and clearly offensive, insensitive and immature, but said there was a possibility his client might not be jailed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-politics-new-nationals-leader/3e705dea-b553-47e3-9fad-9fe32d90d84b" target="_blank"><strong><span>Matt Canavan wins vote to become new Nationals leader</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Koori man had been drunk and influenced by others at Bondi when he embarked on the spontaneous offending, Cremer said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's not planned anti-Semitic … terror activity," he told the court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's drunken stupidity."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the police prosecutor contended a jail term was inevitable, given McMillan's criminal history and the "pretty horrendous" facts before the court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>McMillan had been on parole for multiple domestic violence offences when he mimed holding the gun and made racist remarks, he noted.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/naplan-technical-issue-nation-wide-students-unable-to-sit-exam/de1a264a-ea5d-471c-8fa0-b0e6cc1cc32a" target="_blank"><strong><span>Tests paused, students escorted from exam halls amid widespread NAPLAN issue</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The magistrate agreed that a term of imprisonment appeared likely and declined to hear the bail application.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>McMillan will deliver an apology to the community at his sentencing next month, the court was told.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After shouting the anti-Semitic remarks from the pedestrian bridge, the facts state McMillan made eye contact with a passerby who was walking with his young children.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 22-year-old swore and suggested he would attack the man in a rant that left the terrified children in tears.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Minutes later, he biked up behind a Jewish man wearing religious headwear and his young son, who were walking to a synagogue in Bondi and continued his anti-Semitic rant.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><em><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></em></strong><span> </span><strong><em><span>Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></em></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ul><li><strong><em><span>Download the 9NEWS App here via</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Apple</span></em></strong></a><span> </span><strong><em><span>and</span></em></strong><span> </span><a 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