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Police tracking teens after hundreds storm Church of Scientology

The Sydney Morning Herald·Catherine Strohfeldt·26 days ago
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Police are investigating after more than 200 people – many of them teenagers – stormed the Church of Scientology of Brisbane and climbed over and into police vehicles as part of a social media trend on the weekend. Acting Superintendent Simon Tayler said officers had managed to identify numerous teenagers involved in Saturday’s incident, many of whom posted images of themselves storming the building and vandalising police vehicles on their own social media accounts. “This isn’t just something fun that you post on social media so your mates can click ‘like’; this was a very deliberate act to intimidate people in our state,” Tayler said. He said three officers had been posted outside the Scientology building on George St, and elsewhere in the city, after police flagged social media activity indicating up to a dozen people would try to storm the building. Instead, upwards of 200 people arrived and quickly overwhelmed officers outside the church, Tayler said.…

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