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Several times, including once during a marketing meeting. >> he jumped up on the conference room table, like with his feet right on the table, launched himself across the table at me. i was standing. battered my face, and then shoved me down on the floor. >> reporter: tom was a construction manager for the church. he was only 12 years old when he joined. he left in 2005 because he says he could no longer accept miscavige's violence. >> they would ask me a question and i couldn't tell you what the question is today, i don't remember it, but the next thing i knew, i'm being smacked in the face, ...

The church, he would have never spoken against miscavige. >> if you want to stay in the church you have to do what he says? >> that's right. that's right. he literally holds -- if you're a scientologist and you believe in scientology, and you believe the only way to your spiritual salvation is through the levels of scientology, then he literally holds the power of life and death over every scientologist because he can say, you're out of here. you will get no more scientology services. you're done. >> reporter: the church says hawkins is out to destroy scientology, adding that he supports a mov...