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Sean Patterson similarly didn’t come out Saturday so he and a friend decided to camp out in front of City Hall on Sunday.

“I can’t sit by and live out in L.A. when this is all going on,” Patterson, 23, of Hollywood, said.

Glenn Patterson, a Belfast writer, novelist and filmmaker whose work is informed by the Troubles, agreed about the words’ dark humor: “Gerry Adams has always denied that he has been a member of the IRA. Nobody believes that, so to see that caption drew smiles.”

“I remember the horror of it from the very start,” Patterson says.

Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to murdering three people and attempting to kill another at her home in regional Victoria in July 2023.