MANDAN, N.D. -- A viral Facebook video shows the police chief here and Cass County Sheriff Paul Laney threatening to arrest two Dakota Access Pipeline protesters at a restaurant. As of late Wednesday, Nov. 23, it had been shared more than 340,000 times. According to the Facebook post in which Liz George and Kana Newell shared the video, Laney and Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler called the women over to their table as they were leaving a Mandan restaurant the evening of Monday, Nov. 21 -- the night after officers shot water and rubber bullets at protesters who were trying to clear a bridge law closed for safety concerns. "His first question was 'how long are you going to be here for?' to which we replied 'as long as the pipeline is proceeding'. He immediately replied with 'well that's just not going to happen.'," Newell wrote in her post.

The 37-second video doesn't show that part of the interaction or the discussion the protesters say ensued with the officers. It does show Ziegler and Laney asking the protesters to leave and threatening to arrest them for disorderly conduct.

"I'm going to tell you one more time to leave this restaurant. Go ahead, video tape me. Leave this restaurant," Ziegler said to the women.

"Now you got about two seconds to go, OK guys?" Laney tells them.

George said in her post she was shaking as she wrote and called the incident an example of "intimidation tactics."

According to their Facebook pages, George is from Detroit and Newell is from Australia. They're among the thousands of protesters who have clashed with police as they fight against the route of the $3.8 billion pipeline project, which would travel under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

The tribe and protesters are concerned about the risk the pipeline could pose to the river as a drinking water source and claim the pipeline's path cross land Standing Rock should still own under treaties.