“DeRay hasn’t been in Baltimore doing stuff for the last several years,” explains Dayvon Love, 28, the organization’s director of public policy. “In terms of grass-roots organizing work, he has no history.” Different versions of this critique — that many people, mayoral candidates included, were trying to better Baltimore long before Gray died — cling to Mckesson wherever he goes. Much of Mckesson’s time campaigning is spent arguing that Baltimore has shaped him; his skeptics argue he hasn’t done anything to shape it.