Conservative Icon Roy Innis died, here is a great clip of him pushing Racebaiter Al Sharpton to the floor

Roy Innis, national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, shoved the Rev. Al Sharpton to the floor yesterday during the taping of a nationally syndicated television program.



The two men later continued the discussion of leadership among blacks, said Bill Boggs, executive producer of the program, the Morton Downey Jr. show.



The incident occurred during taping of the talk show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Excerpts of the tape were shown on the WWOR-TV evening news.



During the taping, Mr. Sharpton criticized Mr. Innis for ''kowtowing'' to Attorney General Robert Abrams, Mr. Boggs said.



In response, Mr. Innis cited his appearance on a Downey Show in June that dealt with the Brawley case. According to Mr. Boggs, Mr. Innis told Mr. Sharpton that during that show, he had come to Mr. Sharpton's defense, ''in spite of all those shenanigans'' in the case.



Mr. Sharpton is one of three advisers of Tawana Brawley, the black Wappingers Falls teen-ager who has indicated that she was kidnapped and raped by a group of white men last November. Mr. Sharpton and the other advisers, lawyers, Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, have told Miss Brawley not to cooperate with the investigation of of the incident, which is headed by Mr. Abrams.



Mr. Innis has repeatedly labeled the case as a ''hoax'' and has described Miss Brawley's advisers as the ''three Stooges.''



After order was restored on the set, the two men agreed to a boxing match sometime in the fall, Mr. Boggs said.