Hillary Clinton dodges a shoe on stage
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By KEN RITTER Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman was taken into federal custody Thursday after throwing a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton as the former secretary of state began a Las Vegas convention keynote speech.
The incident happened moments after Clinton took the stage before an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting 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.
"My goodness, I didn't know that solid waste management was so controversial," Clinton said. "Thank goodness she didn't play softball like I did."
Brian Spellacy, U.S. 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, Spellacy said.
Ilene Rosen, the wife of a conventioneer from Denver who was seated in the second row, said she saw an orange object fly toward the stage from a side aisle and papers fluttering in the air.
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04/11/2014 at 07:45 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton dodges a shoe on April 10
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Moments later, still in the stage spotlight, the former secretary of state reflected calmly on what she called "an atmosphere and attitude in politics" that she said rewards inflexibility and extremism.
"That is not the way democracy works," Clinton said as she fielded apologies and questions Thursday from Jerry Simms, the outgoing chairman of the host Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
"People bring their beliefs and their concerns to the table, and work them through," Clinton said.
Meanwhile, a woman was taken into federal custody after admitting she threw the shoe. She didn't say why she did it.
"Is that somebody throwing something at me?" Clinton said after the object flew past her on the stage at the Mandalay Bay resort. "Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?"
Most in the audience of more than 1,000 people understood the reference to the popular series of Las Vegas Strip shows featuring acrobats, magic and whimsy.
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SAN JOSE -- At a restaurant just off the San Jose State University campus Thursday evening, a young waitress, exasperated by the sudden crush of customers ordering salads and a white wine, paused from her exertions to explain why she was so slammed.
"They're all going to see Hillary Clinton," she said, sizing up the room.. "Everywhere you look, it's the same demographic."
A mostly middle-aged, conspicuously Caucasian crowd of women filled the university's Event Center for Clinton's appearance as part of Unique Lives & Experiences.
That was the demographic that was clearly top of mind for the former first lady, senator and secretary of state.
Looking by turns confident in her message and comfortable in her own skin, Clinton sounded like someone ready for her next campaign.
She could have been referring to her own presidential ambitions in 2016 when she declared early on, "All that most women need is a fighting chance to prove themselves."
Compared to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries crowd she had squared off with earlier that day in Las Vegas, where a woman threw a shoe at her head (it missed), this felt like a Lilith Fair love fest with shoulder pads and sensible shoes.
In the carnivallike walk-up outside the arena, protesters held aloft signs that said "Clinton: Benghazi blood on her hands." A man taunted people streaming into the building, saying, "Go on, drink the Kool-Aid. Slurp it down."
Clinton confined most of her remarks to women's struggles, a word she invoked half a dozen times.
She also talked about her mother's plight as an abandoned child and several times quoted Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the great avatars of the women's movement.
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