Toronto Star: Defence Committee

Lengthy Illness Dept: Laws was perhaps best-known for co-founding the Black Action Defence committee in 1988 along with Charles Roach, Sherona Hall and Lennox Farrell after a number of shootings of black men by Toronto-area police. He became a vocal critic of the force and its relationship with the black community, according to The Star. Laws had an admirable spirit, said Mascoll. There are those of us who chose not be activists because we have to raise families and do other mundane things. Dudley took all the risks for all of us. He fought city hall. And he didn t care if he won. He made sure they knew there was a fight and dudley Laws, a controversial race activist, has died after a lengthy illness. He did many things that we could not because he was untiring and completely fearless, said former Toronto Star journalist Phillip Mascoll, who has known Laws since 1981. As reported in the news.
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