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Toronto Police: Day Jobs

Toronto Area Dept: Laws, a major figure in Toronto civil rights, founded Toronto's Black Action Committee and was an outspoken critic of Toronto police, according to CBC. A welder and mechanic by trade, Laws worked day jobs while becoming increasingly involved in civil rights organizations. It was a series of shootings of black men by Toronto-area police officers in the 1970s and 1980s that brought Laws to the forefront and dudley Laws, a controversial activist in Toronto's black community, has died. He was 76. Black activist Dudley Laws died Thursday. He was 76. The Jamaican-born activist immigrated to Canada in 1965 after spending 10 years in the United Kingdom. As reported in the news.
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