Deputies in North Dakota arrested Hollywood actress Shailene Woodley on fairly ridiculous charges of rioting as she took part in a protest against a controversial oil pipeline that threatens Indigenous Sioux land. 

Morton County sheriff's arrested 28 activists including Ms. Woodley as she live blogged a protest over Facebook.  Narrating her own arrested, Ms. Woodley said the police "grabbed me by my jacket and said that I wasn't allowed to continue", adding that "they have giant guns and batons and zip ties and they are not letting me go".  She also claimed to have been singled out "because I'm well known, because I have 40,000 people watching" over social media. 

It's not clear if she had bailed out by Monday night.  The charges carry a maximum punishment of two months in jail and US$3,000 in fines.

Woodley is the star of the "Divergent" series, "The Fault in Our Stars", and this year's "Snowden".  She's been a big supporter of the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would carry Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the US Gulf Coast, crossing across several sensitive rivers - including the very spot where the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation draws its water from the Missouri River.  The tribe believes the pipeline would leave its land vulnerable to contamination from oil spills.  Construction also threatens sites believed to be culturally important to the local Sioux.  For these reasons, the protest has drawn environmentalists and representatives from Indigenous groups across North America, and even some from Central and South America. 

This happened on Columbus Day in America, the federal holiday honoring the genocidal European explorer Christopher Columbus who did not "discover" a damned thing.