Actress Shailene Woodley being led away in handcuffs after standing with the water protectors at a Dakota Access oil pipeline construction site on Monday October 10. Via Facebook.
Actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested for trespassing at one of the construction sites for the Dakota Access oil pipeline, multiple reports confirm.
She was one of 28 people taken in for criminal trespassing, according to the Bismarck Tribune, which reported that more than 200 people were demonstrating at one of the construction sites outside a 20-mile buffer that the federal government had requested the company respect.
In video streamed live on Facebook, Woodley, known for her starring turn in the Divergent movie series, speaks directly into the camera during a two-hour feed chronicling her morning at the construction site near St. Anthony, North Dakota.
“Riot police are arriving. Riot police. Are arriving. At this peaceful protest, where people are praying,” she says at the beginning of a two-hour video, which ends in her arrest.
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After the protectors were asked to leave by police, Woodley was stopped as she walked back to her vehicle to do so.
“To the right of that is our motor home, and to the left of that is…. What IS that?” she can be heard saying, as the camera focuses on vehicles flanking her RV. Then she is stopped by police officers blocking the way.
They just grabbed me by my jacket,” she says into the camera. “They grabbed me by my jacket, and they have giant guns and batons and zip ties, and they’re not letting me go.”
A little while later, after she unsuccessfully tries to find out why she is being detained specifically, an officer tells her, “You were identified.”
She then speaks to the camera.
“So everybody knows, we were going to my vehicle, which they had surrounded,” she said. “And waiting for me.”
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Armed men attacking a place where people are peacefully praying…. hmm…
Saad:
Yep.
She hast been singled out because her broadcast was popular.
What exactly are the differences between USA and a totalitarian police state?
Key differences: She’s white, and a celebrity. Her broadcast hit way more white people than any of the other communications by the Indigenous protesters. That ain’t right, but at least she leveraged her privileges to signal boost the protest, which a lot of white folks are staggeringly ignorant about.
I hope the charges are dropped or defeated. This entire event with DAPL has been atrocious.
Wrong deities/entities being worshipped. It’s only horrible when done to good christians. No freedom of religion for swarthy people.
It would be nice if white privilege weren’t a thing. Since the happy day when that’s true has not yet arrived, it’s at least nice that some whites are using their privilege in ways like Woodley just did.
Wow check out the cammo creep camera left. He thinks he’s in fucking Iraq doesn’t he?
Giliell @5 -- These might have been christian prayers? Most Native Americans are christian, even on the conservative side, from what I’ve heard. I imagine on the ecological protest side the numbers might be different tho.
Probably as close as he’ll ever get.
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I highly doubt they were christian prayers. Which just frightens the police all the more.
Reminds me a bit of the previous post about religious objects not allowed into a courtroom, most likely because they were not christianly religious objects.
Great American Satan @ 8:
No they aren’t. Some yes, most no. Also, I’ve been at the camps and the protests, there are no christian prayers taking place anywhere. This is not prayer in any way that a white westerner would understand, they are not done in English, and are ceremony. The fabric ties that are seen in a number of photos? That’s prayer, okay? Those hold tobacco. For another thing, we don’t have gods, the concept is not an accepted one among most Indians.
Another thing: you can’t fault our ancestors for being christian, because they literally had no choice, it was that or death. Our people were locked up in schools, brutally forced into western christianism, and our ceremonies, our prayers, our way of doing things was outlawed. Our ceremonies remained illegal for generations on end.
It’s things like this why the local super-nationalist party aligns itself with some pretty hardcore christian beliefs while claiming as hero the dude who struggled to drive crusaders out of the country back in the 13th century… And why modern revivers of the more pagan religion are modelling it onto christianity. When in fact a lot of people died trying to reject these sorts of religious impositions -- people were killed while resisting christianization, sometimes in terrible ways.
Anyway, this is a digression.
Thank you that wonderful text from John Trudell. I’m probably going to re-read it more carefully at home, but it’s really striking a nerve for me right now (in a good way).
rq, that’s just a little bit from here. Stellatree and I were talking, and I got a bit carried away copying a bunch from one of John Trudell’s essays.
I don’t think this is digressing, either. It’s on point.
I meant my own comment, not the text you posted -- sorry for the confusion. I just don’t want to be diverting too much attention away with a “I am just like you!” comment.
rq:
I know, I don’t think you’re digressing at all. This is all part of the initial post, the roots, as it were.
Mm, I could talk for ages about this, though. :D Which would probably go well beyond the point.
rq:
I’m ohan with that. I like a good conversation, and I get to learn stuff, too.
(Ohan is Lakota word for Okay.)
I’ll keep that in mind, then.
This stood out for me; could you elaborate a bit, please? You mean “gods” in the sense of the overbearing Abrahamic entity, or deities in general?
Kreator:
Both. When Lakota say great creator, it means great mystery. There’s nothing human about it. There are beings, creators, of course, in our cosmology, our mythology, but they are not gods in the western sense. This conversation might help a little, I tried to explain in comments, but I’m really bad at this.