Following news accounts of Gov. Larry Hogan’s memoir and his critical view of Baltimore leadership during the 2015 uprising, former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake responded in a Baltimore Sun op-ed, saying the governor “devalues the Black community” through his words and actions.

While Hogan paints “himself as a different politician,” the governor “has brought little more beyond criticism and disdain” since calling in the National Guard to quell the unrest following Freddie Gray’s funeral, Rawlings-Blake writes.

Hogan’s memoir, “Still Standing: Surviving Cancer, Riots, and the Toxic Politics that Divide America,” is due out July 28.

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