A former mechanic and welder, Dudley Laws was a Black Canadian activist who rose to prominence during the ’70s and ’80s as an outspoken critic of the Toronto police following the shooting of several Black men.
Demanding justice in protest marches with his rallying cry, “No justice, no peace,” Laws co-founded the Black Action Defence Committee, an organization with similar aims as today’s Black Lives Matter. His call for action ultimately led to police reform and the creation of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, an independent agency that probes situations involving civilians and the police. Laws died in 2011 at the age of 76.
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