Hillary Rodham Clinton was interrupted during a Las Vegas speech on Thursday, when a woman in the audience threw a shoe at her.
Mrs. Clinton, who was addressing the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting, ducked and laughed off the episode. “Is that part of Cirque du Soleil?” she said, joking. “My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial.”
Security guards detained the woman, who was not identified.
Since Mrs. Clinton left the State Department in February 2013, she has delivered a steady string of speeches to industry groups that pay her around $250,000 per event. Protesters often come with the territory, although they rarely get that close.
The Associated Press later obtained a piece of paper that was said to have been written by the shoe-thrower. It appeared to be a copy of a Department of Defense document from 1967 labeled “Confidential” and referring to an operation in Bolivia.
A group that calls itself The Difference Matters had planned to picket the San Diego Convention Center on Friday, when Mrs. Clinton was scheduled to deliver a keynote address to the Western Healthcare Leadership Academy. On its website, The Difference Matters describes itself as a “nonpartisan, nonpolitical group of San Diegans” who “insist on having good government and honesty from our publicly elected officials.”
Mrs. Clinton canceled the speech and instead said she would deliver the address by satellite. Her office said the former secretary of state had a scheduling conflict.
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