The Belfast journalist died after being hit by a bullet during rioting in the Creggan area of Londonderry on April 18 2019.
The service sheet for the funeral of murdered journalist Lyra McKee at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast Ms McKee died after being hit by a bullet during rioting in the Creggan area of Londonderry on April 18 2019, with dissident republican group the New IRA linked to the killing.A mural was unveiled to Ms McKee in Orlando, a city she spoke about visiting in 2017, a year after a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in the city, killing 49 people.
A swastika, a target and anti-LGBTQ+ graffiti were daubed on the mural on the building of Zebra Youth, an organisation which supports LGBTQ+ youth, in recent days. “Will do what we can to identify who did this and hold them accountable,” she posted on the social media website X, formerly known as Twitter.In a post on social media, Zebra Youth said: “Today Zebra Youth and LGBT+ Center Orlando – The Center’s beautiful murals were vandalized with hateful homophobic and transphobic messages and n*zi symbols.
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