Hillary Clinton ducks as shoe thrown at her
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A woman was taken into federal custody after throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton as the former Secretary of State began a Las Vegas convention keynote speech.
The incident happened just after Clinton took the stage before an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting on Thursday at the Mandalay Bay resort.
Clinton ducked, and she did not appear to be hit by the object. She then joked about it.
“Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?” Clinton quipped.
Many in the audience of more than 1,000 people in a large ballroom laughed and applauded as Clinton resumed her speech.
Brian Spellacy, US Secret Service supervisory special agent in Las Vegas, said the woman was being questioned and would face criminal charges. Spellacy declined to identify the woman, and he said it wasn’t immediately clear what the charges would be.
A black and orange shoe was recovered from the stage, he said.
Ilene Rosen, seated in the second row, said the woman had walked down the aisle to within six rows of the front of the seating area, threw the shoe and some papers, turned around, put her hands in the air and walked toward the back of the room. Security officers quickly caught up with her.
In the hotel hallway, the middle-aged blonde woman sat calmly on a sofa, wearing a blue dress and thong sandals. She said she threw a shoe and dropped some papers, but didn’t identify herself to reporters or explain the action.
Spellacy and Mark Carpenter, spokesman for the institute, said the woman wasn’t an accredited convention member and wasn’t meant to have been in the ballroom.
Clinton, the former first lady and Democratic senator from New York, has been traveling the country giving paid speeches.
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