An actor who was falsely convicted of murder by then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has said he plans to vote for former President Donald Trump, citing “the economy, the border and inflation” as reasons.
Jamal Trulove, who appeared in the movie The last black man in San Francisco, he said the New York Post that life under Trump “was good” compared to life under the Biden-Harris administration. Trulove, who previously endorsed Harris in 2020, cited “the economy, the border and inflation” as reasons he's voting for Trump.
“When we saw what our life was like when Trump was in office, we felt like life was good compared to now,” Trulove told the outlet. “We weren't in any war, we're in wars right now. Illegals weren't coming in, but now they're coming in.”
Trulove added that he couldn't see himself “voting for a woman who had anything to do” with him being “framed for murder.”
In a recent interview to the Art of dialogue Trulove said she'll “never forget” turning around and seeing Harris, who was serving as San Francisco's district attorney at the time, “make eye contact” with him, and she “just burst out laughing” when it was his guilty verdict. announced
Trulove was wrongly accused of murdering Seu Kuka and was initially sentenced to serve 50 years in prison.
“I'll never forget when I turned around and I looked and I saw Kamala Harris, you know, this time we locked eyes there, and she … and she laughed,” Trulove said. “Literally, like, kind of laughing, almost like I'm pointing it out, like, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's how I felt, though.”
Jamal Trulove on Kamala Harris laughing at him when he was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder.
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“We ended up losing. We ended up losing,” Trulove said on the show. “And after we lost, I was convicted, whether the verdict came down, you know, obviously the courtroom is packed. I know who this lady Kamala Harris is. The people of the projects I knew who she was because she was a black district attorney, and we thought we had a black district attorney in office. And who we perceived was black.”
Trulove added that the black community thought Harris would be “a little more favorable to them.”
“Now, during my trial, I didn't even think about this lady, just in general,” Trulove continued. “I just knew she was the tax director, they never came and tried to talk to me or anything like that, right. It was strictly, 'You did this, we're covering you, you're going down.'
In his interview with the outlet, Trulove added that he supported Harris in 2020 because he had been “pressured by executives and many” of his advisers.
“I put my difference aside just because I was being pressured by executives and a lot of my advisors, because I had contracts to make my documentary and obviously I make films and so on,” Trulove explained.
Jamal Trulove and Chaz Ebert attend the Film Noir Celebration at Landmark Annex on December 2, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Film Noir Celebration)
After serving six years in prison, Trulove was acquitted of murder by a jury in 2015.
In 2019, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to approve a $13.1 million settlement for Trulove, seconds NPR News.
Trulove's deal reportedly came after he “reported in January 2016.”
He sued in January 2016. In April of last year, an Oakland jury found that two police officers in the case, Maureen D'Amico and Michal Johnson, deliberately fabricated and failed to disclose exculpatory material.
“And believe me, I'm far from done with them!!” Trulove wrote in a publication to X at that time. “After what these cowards in the law did to me, I'm going to flash my freedom ring on every platform I have to show what injustice really looks like. me!”
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