Associated Press reports the trend has been circulating on TikTok for about a month<\/a>, with participants attempting to uncover what they believe the Church of Scientology is hiding.<\/p>\nA Scientology member who said he was at the facility that weekend but unaware of the disruption outside questioned the motives of those involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you think about people kicking the doors? They\u2019re paid to do it. You think they are paid to do it? I think so.\u201d the member said.<\/p>\n
NBC San Diego crews were shooed away from the property while reporting, and security appeared to be heightened following the incident.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Scientology spokesperson David Bloomberg said the activity described online as \u201cspeed running\u201d was actually organized trespassing that involved coordinated disruption and an attempted forced entry. Bloomberg said the incident resulted in damage to locks and a video camera.<\/p>\n
Additional video shows members of the group pulling on doors secured with chains. The building is equipped with security cameras.<\/p>\n
San Diego police responded to reports of vandalism and trespassing. Officers arrived as the group dispersed. Some individuals were questioned, but no arrests were made.<\/p>\n
In an email, San Diego police spokesperson Officer Abbey Langley said detectives are reviewing evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cDetectives are looking at evidence to find those responsible for the vandalism to church property. Crimes committed against religious institutions will not be tolerated,\u201d Langley said.<\/p>\n
No arrests or charges have been made as of Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC San Diego. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC San Diego journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral social media trend known as \u201cScientology speedrunning\u201d drew a crowd of 40 to 50 people \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,8315,365,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-776860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-downtown-san-diego","12":"tag-religion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}