US actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested during a protest in North Dakota against a huge oil pipeline project that will cross four states.<\/p>\n
The Divergent star was arrested at a construction site as she was broadcasting the protest, which involved about 200 people, on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Police say she was one of 27 people arrested on charges of criminal trespass and engaging in a riot.<\/p>\n
The Dakota Access pipeline project has drawn huge protests.<\/p>\n
Native Americans have halted its construction in North Dakota, saying it will desecrate sacred land and damage the environment.<\/p>\n
In the Facebook Live footage, Ms Woodley, 24, said she had been walking peacefully back to her vehicle 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”.<\/p>\n
As she was led away with her hands cuffed, she said she had been singled out from hundreds of other protesters “because I’m well known, because I have 40,000 people watching”.
\nThe video spread quickly on social media and by early evening had been viewed more than 2.4 million times.<\/p>\n
Ms Woodley, a star of The Divergent Series and the movie Snowden, has previously joined members of North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protest against the $3.7bn (\u00a32.8bn) pipeline.<\/p>\n
The protest on Monday took place at a construction site about two miles (3.2 km) south of the town of St Anthony.
\nThe pipeline will run 1,168 miles through Iowa, Illinois, and North and South Dakota.<\/p>\n
Energy Transport Partners, the company behind the project, has said it will boost local economies and is safer than transporting oil by rail or road.<\/p>\n
But environmental protesters believe the transporting of up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil a day will imperil local waterways.<\/p>\n
Native American tribes believe the pipeline would also damage historic sites.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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