Casey Anthony, who made national headlines more than a decade ago after she was charged with and acquitted of first-degree murder of her 2-year-old daughter, criticized Vice President JD Vance’s defense of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier this week.
“From those of us in the legal world, you should try consulting with someone other than the corrupt Attorney General of the United States to get your information about how our legal system and our Constitution are applied to ALL citizens, yourself included,” Anthony wrote on her Substack on Thursday, in part.
“We know that you are all complicit in taking this out of the hands of the State of Minnesota where the crime was committed,” she added.
Newsweek reached out to Vance’s team by email outside of normal business hours on Saturday afternoon for comment after the White House referred to them for any comment.
Why It Matters
Anthony was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter of a child, and four counts of providing false information to police after her daughter Caylee Anthony was found dead five months after she was reported missing in 2008.
Anthony ultimately was acquitted of all charges except the counts of providing false statements to law enforcement. Subsequently, in 2025 she attempted to rebrand herself as a legal advocate, launching a TikTok channel and Substack to “give a voice to people, to give people tools and resources that they can utilize, so they actually know where they can turn to.”
What To Know
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) labeled Good as a “domestic terrorist” and insisted she was a threat to federal agents and that the agent fired in self-defense, while Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other leading Democrats have sharply criticized ICE’s actions.
The fatal shooting has drawn protestors to the streets across the country over the past few days.
During a press conference on Thursday, Vance claimed the agent had “absolute immunity” and was “doing his job” while criticizing Democrats and Walz as “radicals” for going after the ICE agent to “make this guy’s life miserable.”
Vance also has posted several times on X about various comments and criticisms leveled against the agent, even arguing with reporters on the platform about their reporting.
The statements have faced intense scrutiny after video of the incident from the perspective of the ICE officer was released on Friday, with some saying it contradicted the White House’s version of events.
Anthony took issue with Vance’s “absolute immunity” defense, writing on her Substack and reposting to other platforms that “there is no such thing as a federal law-enforcement officer having immunity because it is convenient for you and this Administration.”
“This applies to your Gestapo agents in ICE. This crime needs to be investigated as all other officer-involved crimes need to be investigated in our country. Release the reports,” Anthony wrote, referring to the administration’s apparent decision to exclude Minnesota officials from the investigation into the shooting.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday urged the public to send any video or evidence of the fatal shooting directly to her office, despite the Trump administration assigning the investigation solely to the FBI.
“Release the body camera footage if there is any. Hold this man accountable as you would if the woman he shot in cold blood would have fired upon him or anyone else,” Anthony continued.
“We will not be blindly lead astray by your lies and manipulation of the facts,” she added. “We are watching. We are holding our government officials accountable. We are holding our federal law-enforcement agents accountable. This is the ninth shooting since September. Where is the justice these victims and their families deserve?”
“You swore an oath to uphold the laws of the United States Constitution. We hold you to that oath,” Anthony concluded.
What People Are Saying
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said at a news conference this week: “We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt. What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict.”
Vice President JD Vance wrote in part in a post on X on Thursday:Â “The gaslighting is off the charts and I’m having none of it. This guy was doing his job. She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him. A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.”
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier this week:Â “I have just watched the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructive and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”
What Happens Next
The FBI is currently leading the investigation into Good’s death, a move questioned by state officials due to concerns over impartiality and transparency.
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