Shailene Woodley, an actress and activist, streamed her arrest during a pipeline protest in North Dakota on Facebook Live Monday.
Woodley, best known as the lead actress in the "Divergent" movie series and "The Fault in Our Stars," was arrested for criminal trespassing with others while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, USA Today reported. The newspaper said the actress's mother recorded Woodley's interaction with authorities during the arrest.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had been trying to block the construction of the crude oil pipeline that will run near its reservation, ABC News reported. The 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, which crosses four states, has attracted one of the largest Native American protests in decades.
"It's because I'm well known, it's because I have 40,000 people watching," Woodley told authorities after asking the police why she was being arrested yet some of the other protesters were allowed to leave, according to USA Today.
"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," she said, according USA Today, saying that she was complying with orders to leave when arrested. "I hope you're watching, mainstream media."
The video had been viewed more than 3.4 million time on the actress's Facebook page.
A federal appeals court denied the tribe's request for an injunction to block construction of the pipeline on Sunday, allowing for construction of the pipeline to continue, ABC News noted. The Standing Rock Sioux argued that the pipeline would threaten its water supply and adversely affect its culturally sacred sites.
"We are guided by prayer, and we will continue to fight for our people," Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, said in a statement, according to ABC News. "We will not rest until our lands, people, waters and sacred places are permanently protected from this destructive pipeline."
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, which is building the pipeline, said in a statement the ruling shows that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acted "with great care and followed the law" in gaining river-crossing permits for the pipeline, ABC News reported.
"We are pleased with the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals to dissolve the administrative injunction that had temporarily suspended construction activities on the Dakota Access pipeline in an area near the proposed crossing of the Missouri River at Lake Oahe," Energy Transfer said in the statement.