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Kobe and Gianna Bryant mural covered up with graffiti in downtown Los Angeles

Someone has tagged over one of downtown Los Angeles’ Kobe and Gianna Bryant murals.

In a Monday Instagram post, the account @Kobemural shared before-and-after photos of the Mambas Forever mural at 14th and Main streets, where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant is memorialized in uniform and lovingly holding and kissing his daughter, “Gigi,” who is holding a basketball. Next to them, written in old English style, “Mambas Forever” is painted in purple and gold.

Now the mural has been vandalized with giant bubble letters outlined in black and filled in with white similar to the street tagging visible throughout the rest of the city.