My colleague Jeff Charles documented well the troubling story of Jamal Trulove, who was a victim of Kamala Harris’ ambition when she served as San Francisco’s district attorney and then ran for California attorney general. In 2010, Trulove was wrongly convicted of a 2007 murder and served six years in prison for a crime he did not commit; there was clear proof that the main witness had been coerced into her testimony and the little evidence there was in the case had been tampered with. Trulove’s conviction was overturned on appeal, and he rightly sued and received a 13.1 million dollar settlement from the City of San Francisco. But Trulove will never get those years back, and Kamala Harris has never apologized for what she did.
On Thursday night at the Democrat National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris will accept the nomination for President of the United States. Over the previous three nights of the political convention, viewers have been subjected to the diffusion and whitewashing of Harris’ past, personality, and actual prosecutorial record. As Charles, and others here at RedState have written, not everyone is embracing the JOY—especially Black men. Harris’ wrongful convictions of Trulove, and Caramad Conley, whose case then-San Francisco DA Harris sent back to trial after he had been cleared in 1989 of a double murder, have not been forgotten by the Black community.
Known for her tough stance on crime, Harris oversaw a number of prosecutions that ended with a wrongful conviction, including that of Jamal Trulove who was sent to prison in 2007, convicted of the murder of his friend – despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime.
As California Attorney General, she helped author a law that sent parents to jail if their offspring played truant – DailyMail.com can reveal the first parent to be convicted, Hanford mom Lorraine Cuevas, ended up losing custody of her kids to her mother as a result.
Notoriously, one of her final acts as San Francisco DA was to send the case of Caramad Conley, now 50, back to trial after he had been cleared of the 1989 double murder of Charles Hughes and Roshawn Johnson.
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As Charles wrote,
Stories like Trulove’s exemplify why many black Americans are not supporting the vice president – especially black men. The Harris campaign has been trying to win back at least some of these voters. But as more stories like this emerge, it will become even harder for the vice president to convince black voters to vote for her.
In a Tuesday interview with NewsMax, Trulove has made it known that he will not be voting for her. He revealed to Rob Finnerty that he will be casting his vote for former President and GOP nominee Donald Trump.
#KamalaHarris laughed in his face when Jamal Trulove was sentenced to 50 years after he was framed for the shooting of friend Seu Kuka. Conviction was overturned after Trulove spent 6 years in jail and he was awarded a $13.1 million settlement. Now voting for Trump! #California pic.twitter.com/9Qrc7I9uOU
— 🇺🇸 TeamWalesSusie 🇺🇸#FKH 🇺🇸 kamala is a liar (@gs777gs777) August 16, 2024
Even after his horrific ordeal and history, Finnerty asked Trulove, “You gonna vote for Kamala Harris in November?”
TRULOVE: No, absolutely not. I’m voting Trump this year.
NEWSMAX: Do you feel like there are a lot of people in the African-American community, in the Black community who feel the same way about Kamala vs. Trump now?
TRULOVE: Yes, one hundred percent. What I get from my community, you know, the Black community, and I’m not talking about the super, you know, left-wing media Black community. I’m talking about people, everyday people that I see, and talk to in rural areas and so forth, that says, “The only thing that Kamala’s ever did for Black people was lock Black people up.” And that played a big part to our culture. Our culture is known for Black people going to jail, coming home, rapping about it, and being celebrated about it, as well. But from what I get from the people that I talk to, they’re not voting for Kamala Harris, and they’re not voting for Kamala Harris just because she’s Black neither. They’re voting for Trump.
This reflects a complete rejection of the campaign underway to force Harris down the throats of the Black community. We may not know until November to what depths this goes. Because of the psyop campaign and pressure on the Black community–that you vote Kamala or else–many are remaining silent on who they will support.
TRULOVE: They don’t want to vocalize it in public too much, because you get demonized. Which, in a lot of aspects, I’m being demonized right now because I’m going against the status quo of the Black vote.
It’s an insightful interview and gives a window into views that legacy media, and some conservative outlets, choose to ignore.
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