Shailene Woodley arrested for criminal trespassing

Actress Shailene Woodley was peacefully protesting against a planned pipeline in North Dakota when she was arrested for criminal trespassing.

The environmental activist captured the entire incident live on Facebook and narrated the arrest in real time to make sure her fans could see exactly what was happening.

The 24-year-old, along with hundreds of other passionate protesters, were at the demonstration to voice their concerns for the proposed pipeline that will apparently ruin sacred Native American land and pollute the tribe's water supply.

In the video above, the Divergent star says was heading back to her car when “they grabbed me by my jacket and said that I wasn’t allowed to continue … and they have giant guns and batons and zip ties and they are not letting me go.”

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As she tries to ask the police why she is being arrested, they tell her it’s because she is famous.

"Alright I'm being arrested," she says. "Because I was trespassing like everyone. As soon as you guys asked me to leave, I l left. She was down there, everybody was down there. I'm being arrested. I was down there with everybody else. I don't know what's going on? As soon as they came I left… it's because I'm well known. It's because I have 40,000 people watching."

As she’s led away in handcuffs, the Fault in Our Stars actress added: "So everybody knows…we were going to our vehicle which they had all surrounded and waiting for me with giant guns and a giant truck behind them just so they could arrest me. I hope you're watching mainstream media."

According to E! News, Shailene and 26 other people supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe were arrested at the construction site of the $4.8 billion project for criminal trespassing and taken to Morton County Sheriff’s Office.

The tribe say the pipeline would leave their sacred land vulnerable to contamination from oil spills and would damage their historic and culturally significant site.

While supporters of the pipeline say it would provide a safer and more cost-effective way to transport oil to the U.S. Gulf than by road or rail.

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