A man wielding two swords was killed Sunday outside one of the hundreds of Scientology buildings in Hollywood.
Police say the man -- who had some involvement with the church in the past -- showed up at around noon, approached three guards and began waving two samurai swords. The guards took it seriously -- one of them killed the man with a semi-automatic handgun.
As of now cops are saying the guards acted in self-defense.
A surveillance tape captured the incident.
11/23/2008 9:00 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF
Man Shot Dead by Scientology Security
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Why would the "church" have security guards? Forget the terrorists, someone needs to keep an eye on the Scientologists.
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See what happens when dump people bring swords to a gun fight!
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I agree with #2, why would the Scientology Church need security with semi automatic weapons? Sounds fishy to me.
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Fishy - Fishy - Fishy - not the security guards (they were doing their jobs) but 3 on duty at once - what are they hiding at the Church?????? Hummmmmmmmmmmmm
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"Someone needs to keep an eye on the Scientologists."
http://www.youtube.com/user/Church0fScientology
http://www.xenu.net/
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/
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Doesn't the sword have some sort of significance in scientology?
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Oh Good Lord,
They should've let him in to do his business and THEN blew him away...
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Oh oh, Tom's got some 'splainin to do. Those stage weapons he brought back from his latest WW2 movie were supposed to be PLASTIC! And all that visitor wanted was Tom's autograph on those plastic samurai swords from Disneyland! Well, there goes the neighborhood!
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In self defense??? With a semi-automatic??? and they are securtity???? So much more wrong than right with that.
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