Jamal Trulove was sentenced to 50 years in prison after he was framed by police for the 2007 shooting of his friend Seu Kuka.
At the time, Harris was the District Attorney for San Francisco and was responsible for securing the conviction.
It was overturned after Trulove spent six years in jail and he was later awarded a $13.1 million settlement from the city.
But Trulove told The Art Of Dialogue talk show that he has been unable to shake Harris’ cruel taunt from his mind.
Actor Jamal Trulove, who was wrongfully convicted of murder by Kamala Harris, said the Vice President ‘burst out laughing’ when the verdict was read out in court
‘We locked eyes this one time, and she laughed,’ he said. ‘She literally just, like, kind of busted out laughing.
‘Almost as if she was pointing like, ‘ha-ha’, she didn’t point, but that’s how it felt.’
Trulove, who previously endorsed Harris in 2020, stated in another YouTube video that he will be voting for Trump in November.
‘If you’re wondering if I’ll be voting for Kamala ‘Laugh-and-Lie’ Harris, f*** no,’ he said.
Trulove was acquitted in a 2015 retrial.
Three years after his exoneration, Trulove sued the police department and four officers saying they fabricated evidence, coerced a key eyewitness and withheld vital information that may have exonerated Trulove.
A federal jury determined the two lead homicide detectives had violated Trulove’s civil rights and awarded him $14.5 million.
Trulove was sentenced to 50 years in prison after he was framed by police for the 2007 shooting of his friend Seu Kuka while Harris was DA for San Francisco
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Trulove accepted the $13.1 million offer in exchange for the city’s dropping of its appeal. The jury cleared two other officers of wrongdoing.
The jury found that detectives showed an eyewitness a single photo of Trulove rather than presenting the person with photos of other people as part of a ‘lineup’ to identify a suspect.
Evidence also was produced showing the detectives were aware of another suspect who they did not investigate, among other failures.
The four officers named in Trulove’s lawsuit have retired. No officers were disciplined for their roles in the case.
Nobody has been convicted of Kuka’s murder since Trulove’s acquittal.
Trulove said that ahead of his conviction he had hoped that Harris might show leniency towards him due to her background.
‘People in the projects knew who she was because she was a black district attorney and we thought we had a black district attorney in office that was from Oakland,’ he said. ‘We would think that she would be a little more favorable to us.’
Kuka was shot to death in a San Francisco housing project, his real killer has never been found
Trulove was freed in 2015 after he was acquitted at retrial following six years in jail
However Harris’ time as a prosecutor has been criticized by those on the left as unduly harsh.
Law professor Lara Bazelon, who is the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles, said in the New York Times that Harris was ‘regressive’ during her tenure.
‘Most troubling, Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold 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.
How does Jamal Trulove’s experience shape your opinion of Kamala Harris?
Meanwhile as California’s attorney general, Harris successfully defended the death penalty in court, despite a past crusade against it.
As a new senator, she proposed to abolish cash bail — a reversal 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 took on predators, fraudsters and cheaters like Donald Trump,’ spokesman James Singer said of her record.
DailyMail.com has contacted Harris’ team for comment.
