Congress of Racial Equality spokesman Niger Innis says he has no doubt the shooting deaths of two New York City police officers on Saturday was inspired by the tone set by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and National Action Network president Al Sharpton.
"I call them the cabal, the four Musketeers," Innis said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's
"Your World with Neil Cavuto."
Before shooting NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu to death, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley invoked the name of Eric Garner, and said on Instagram, "I'm putting wings on pigs today."
Innis said that big government lobbyists and people on Wall Street have benefited from the "Obama economy," but not so for working class minorities.
"Sharpton, Obama, Holder, de Blasio, the progressives have run out of bullets so they need to racialize America," Innis said. "They need to divide America to maintain their relevance because their solutions that have dominated our country since Obama came into the presidency have failed miserably."
Their ultimate goal is to stay relevant, Innis said, and Obama, Holder and de Blasio all have helped elevate Sharpton by consulting him as a defacto spokesman for black America.
Protesters have been chanting, "Black Lives Matter," Innis noted, but they seem to matter only when their lives are taken by white people.
"If you've got 7,000 black lives being taken by other black people, other black men, somehow they don't have as much value, and that is a terrible tragedy," Innis said.
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