The actor, who was wrongly convicted of murder by San Francisco’s then-District Attorney Kamala Harris, said he plans to vote for former President Donald Trump, citing “the economy, the border and inflation.”
Jamal Truelove is Appeared In the movies The last black man in San Francisco, said of New York Post Truelove said life under Trump was “better” than life under a Biden-Harris administration. Truelove, who supported Harris in 2020, cited “the economy, the border and inflation” as reasons for voting for Trump.
“When I look back at life when Trump was president, it felt like life was better than it is now,” Truelove told the outlet. “There was no war then, and now there is. There were no illegal immigrants coming in, and now there are.”
Truelove added that he couldn’t imagine voting for a woman who “has anything to do with” his being framed for murder.
Recent Interview To The Art of Dialogue During the show, Truelove said she would “never forget” “catching eyes” with Harris, who was then the district attorney of San Francisco, and her “big laugh” when the guilty verdict was handed down.
Truelove was falsely accused of murdering Seu Kukah and was initially sentenced to 50 years in prison.
“I’ll never forget looking back and there was Kamala Harris, and we just locked eyes there, and she…laughed,” Truelove said. “She literally just burst out laughing, like, ha ha ha, like she was pointing at it, but that’s how I felt.”
Jamal Truelove said Kamala Harris laughed at him when he was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
🎥 The Art of Dialogue/YouTube) pic.twitter.com/u0qL9pKqxu
— Art of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) August 12, 2024
“In the end, we lost. In the end, we lost,” Truelove said on the show. “And after I lost, I was convicted. Whether or not there’s a sentence, the courtroom is obviously packed. I know who this woman is, Kamala Harris. She was a black district attorney, so the people in the projects knew who she was. We thought we had a black district attorney in office. And who we perceived to be black.”
Truelove added that the black community thought Harris would be “a little more favorable” to them.
“During the trial, I didn’t think about this woman at all, but just in general,” Truelove continued, “I knew she was the chief district attorney. They never came and tried to talk to me or anything like that. It was just, ‘You did this. We’re going to prosecute you. You’re going to be arrested.'”
In an interview with the outlet, Truelove added that he supported Harris in 2020 because he felt pressured by “seniors and a lot of” advisers.
“I put my differences aside because I was under pressure from executives and a number of advisors, I had a contract to do a documentary and, of course, I was doing a film, and so on and so forth,” Truelove explained.
Jamal Truelove and Chaz Ebert attend the Celebration of Black Cinema at the Landmark Annex in Los Angeles, California on December 2, 2019. (Randy Shropshire/Courtesy of Celebration of Black Cinema via Getty Images)
Truelove has served six years of his sentence. innocence He was convicted of murder by a jury in 2015.
In 2019, the San Francisco City Council approved a $13.1 million settlement against Truelove. According to NPR News.
The settlement against Truelove reportedly came after he “filed suit in January 2016.”
He filed his lawsuit in January 2016. Last April, an Oakland jury found that two officers who worked on the case, Maureen D’Amico and Michal Johnson, knowingly fabricated and withheld exculpatory documents.
“And believe me, I’m not done with them yet!!” Truelove wrote. post At the time, he posted to X: “After what these lawless cowards did to me, I will be lighting the ring of freedom on every platform and showing injustice for what it really is: ME!”
https://twitter.com/jamaltrulove/status/1108187169762340866
