//In Other News: Shailene Woodley Was Arrested During a Pipeline Protest

In Other News: Shailene Woodley Was Arrested During a Pipeline Protest

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Shailene Woodley was arrested yesterday morning while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota . . . and she broadcast the whole thing on Facebook Live.

She was charged with criminal trespassing. She and her mother were protesting with hundreds of others, but the cops showed up and started making arrests.

She said they started returning to their vehicle when they were asked to leave, but she was stopped and arrested. She’d been filming for two hours, and her mom took over while she was being taken in.

Shailene said other people were allowed to leave, but she was arrested because, quote, “I’m well known, it’s because I have 40,000 people watching.

“We were going to our vehicle, which they had all surrounded. [They were] 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.” In all, 27 people were arrested.

A police spokesman said the protesters were, quote, “asked to disperse many, many times, but ignored those warnings.”

(Here’s the UNCENSORED video.  You can skip to an hour and 56 minutes.  She’s arrested in the final eight minutes of the stream.)