An actor who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Kamala Harris said the vice president laughed in his face when the verdict was read in court.
Jamal Trulove was sentenced to 50 years in prison after police framed him for the 2007 shooting of his friend Seu Kuka.
At the time, Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco and the person responsible for securing the conviction.
The sentence was overturned after Trulove spent six years in prison and was subsequently awarded a $13.1 million settlement by the city.
But Trulove told talk show The Art Of Dialogue that she hasn’t been able to get Harris’ cruel taunt out of her head.
Actor Jamal Trulove, who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Kamala Harris, said the vice president laughed in his face when the verdict was read in court.
“We locked eyes once and she laughed,” he said. “She literally burst out laughing.”
“Almost like he was pointing and saying ‘ha ha’. He didn’t point, but that’s how it felt.”
Trulove, who previously endorsed Harris in 2020, stated in another YouTube video that she will vote for Trump in November.
“If you’re wondering if I’m voting for Kamala ‘Laugh-and-Lie’ Harris, fuck no,” he said.
Trulove was acquitted at a new trial in 2015. Three years after his exoneration, Trulove sued the police department and four officers, alleging they fabricated evidence, coerced a key witness and withheld vital information that could have exonerated Trulove.
A federal jury found that the two top homicide detectives had violated Trulove’s civil rights and awarded him $14.5 million.
Trulove was sentenced to 50 years in prison after police framed him for the 2007 shooting of his friend Seu Kuka while Harris was San Francisco district attorney.
Trulove accepted the $13.1 million offer in exchange for the city dropping its appeal. The jury acquitted two other officers of any wrongdoing.
The jury found that detectives showed a witness a single photo of Trulove instead of presenting him with photos of other people as part of a “screening lineup” to identify a suspect.
Evidence was also presented showing detectives were aware of another suspect they did not investigate, among other failures.
All four officers named in Trulove’s lawsuit have retired. No officers were disciplined for their role in the case.
Trulove said before his sentencing he hoped Harris would show leniency toward him because of his record.
“People in the suburbs knew who she was because she was a black district attorney and we thought we had a black district attorney in office who was from Oakland,” she said. “We thought she would be a little more favorable toward us.”
Trulove was released in 2015 after being acquitted in a retrial following six years in prison.
He later sued the police and was awarded a $13.1 million settlement by the city.
However, Harris’s tenure as prosecutor has been criticized by those on the left as excessively harsh.
Law professor Lara Bazelon, former director of the Project for the Innocents at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said in the The New York Times that Harris was “regressive” during her tenure.
“Most troubling, Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to defend wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony, and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors,” Bazelon wrote.
Meanwhile, as California attorney general, Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite an earlier crusade against it.
As a new senator, she proposed abolishing cash bail, a shift from when she chided San Francisco judges for making it “cheaper” to commit crimes by setting bail amounts too low.
“During her career in law enforcement, Kamala Harris was a pragmatic prosecutor who successfully confronted predators, scammers and cheaters like Donald Trump,” spokesman James Singer said of her record.
DailyMail.com has contacted Harris’s team for comment.
