Woman Throws "Shoe" At Hillary Clinton During Las Vegas Speech

"Is that somebody throwing something at me? Is that part of Cirque de Soleil?"

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Richard James
by Richard James

BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK

Updated — 5:05 p.m. ET

A woman threw what she described as a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas on Thursday.

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The incident happened not long after the former U.S. secretary of state took to the stage at an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel-Casino.

The 66-year-old managed to duck the object and initially asked if it had been a bat.

After realising something had been thrown as her, Clinton jokingly asked if it was "part of Cirque du Soleil" — the acrobatic show based in Vegas.

Security officials later ushered the woman who said she threw the shoe out of the event.

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She was then arrested, but it remains unclear why she targeted the former first lady.

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Las Vegas police said the shoe-thrower is Alison Michelle Ernst, 36, of Phoenix.

Ernst was charged with disorderly conduct, The Daily News reported.

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