Minnesota Attorney General Jim Schultz told Fox News Digital in 2022 that a series of shootings in Minneapolis last week killed six victims and five injured in just 24 hours, highlighting the “result” of “anti-police rhetoric and failed leadership.”

Minneapolis authorities announced Thursday that 34-year-old gang member James Ortley allegedly arrested a mass shooting on April 29, killing four people and injuring two people.

Police said the April 29 incident was the first of six shootings in 24 hours, killing six people and injuring five others, adding that investigators are determining whether certain shootings have been connected.

“The tragic consequences of the Minneapolis anti-political rhetoric school year, the leadership of the Minneapolis State Legislature and Minneapolis sitting at the Mad County Attorney’s Attorney in Herepin County, said Schultz, the father of the five, Minnesota and Minnesota President. “When city officials demonize law enforcement and cut police budgets and refuse to prosecute criminals, the results will be purchased on the street.”

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Schultz noted that Minneapolis became the "Ground Zero" of the "Fine Police" movement, especially after George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020.

"A few years later, police personnel are still declining," he said. "We still need half of the police. Morale is broken and criminals feel bold because the people who originate from the fines movement... Mary Moriarty's county prosecutor is (one of George Soros's huge, left and right prosecutors), which makes every policy full of public safety that can be deficient."

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Schultz said Moriarty is “actively pursuing law enforcement” and “elections…dismissing the case, allowing the case to provide leniency plea agreements for individuals committing serious violent crimes, otherwise adopting various very awake policies, such as considering race in sentencing guidelines and other ways of considering race.”

For example, the suspect has a long criminal history in the mass shooting on Tuesday.

Hennepin County records show that the alleged crime craze led to a Minneapolis resident being shot dead through his bedroom window in February, but district attorneys eventually denied the 34-year-old resident, as the Star Tribune first reported.

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Over the past 15 years, he has also faced charges of aggravated robbery from DWI to first-level level, fleeing police, illegal possession of firearms and second-level assault. The allegations stem from two violent incidents, where he allegedly shot a 16-year-old girl while stealing a phone call in 2009 and stabbed a man in a bar in 2021.

One witness described Ortley's weapon as the weapon in the attack, "a 3-inch-long knife." Witnesses further said she saw the victim fleeing the defendant, losing his shoes, turned around, when Otley grabbed the victim and “started stabbing him in the back.”

He was sentenced to 39 months in prison and five years of probation in Ortley's latest alleged bar stabbing, but the court issued an execution that temporarily stopped the sentence order.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office (HCAO) did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News numbers.

Schultz said Minneapolis has seen "an improvement in the number of homicides in the city in particular."

"Of course, it's a huge backlash ... a reminder that Minneapolis is still operating, and a small number of police officers are needed," Schultz said of the mass shooting. "It still operates in an environment where many city leaders are hostile to law enforcement, even if crime problems in cities still exist, even if they don't peak like in 2020, '21, '23, '23, '24.

The former attorney general nominee said Hennepin County should “put on hold these strange policies of the left that say it is unfair to take responsibility (the criminal) because they found the situation of life.”

“We need to make sure violent criminals are sent to jail for victims and public safety for their use,” he said.

The Justice Department announced an investigation into the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office on Sunday, to “engage in a way that deprives people of rights, privileges or immunity, protected or protected by the U.S. Constitution or law,” through Moriarty’s new directive or a new directive for prosecutors to consider race when defending criminals.

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In a May 2 letter, Justice Department officials listed Moriarty’s recent adoption of “negotiation policy for cases involving adult defendants”, which directed prosecutors to consider race when making a plea offer, noting that “racial identity … should be part of the overall analysis” and that prosecutors should identify and address racial discrimination at the point of decision making.

"In particular, the investigation will focus on whether the HCAO engages in racial illegal considerations in prosecution decisions," the Justice Department official said in the letter.

Danielle Wallace of Fox News contributed to the report.