Are tattoos free speech that should override coronavirus restrictions? Lila Seidman Los Angeles – Unsure whether he could hold a funeral for his grandmother who succumbed to COVID-19, the man turned to Tiffany Mitchell for another way to memorialize her. He “couldn’t just get the phone call and go, ‘OK, she’s dead’ and just leave it at that and do nothing at all,” said Mitchell, who owns Black Raven Tattoo in Torrance. “For a lot of people, a tattoo is one of the only outlets they have to honor somebody.” With a whirring tattoo gun, she emblazoned the words “Grandma RIP” on his forearm.