O'Malley's administration has been full of corruption and scandals. They kept hiring corrupt philandering, party-animal boneheads from the NYPD to head the police, among other lunacies. Makes you start to wonder. The old line about "birds of a feather..."
It's the mentality behind the people who are pulling all the strings, they have been rejected time after time and they really want to get violent but they know what that means so we are seeing a bunch of cheap shots that make them look petty.