OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The attorney for an Omaha man accused of stealing a gay pride flag and burning it says his client’s actions don’t add up to a hate crime.

Twenty-three-year-old Cameron Mayfield is charged with arson and resisting arrest. He’s accused of taking the rainbow flag on Saturday from the porch of a lesbian couple who lived near him and setting the flag on fire.

James Martin Davis is Mayfield’s attorney, and he said if his client’s actions seemed political, it wasn’t intentional.

Davis says that what Mayfield did “is criminal mischief, it’s destruction of property, and I think he’s willing to pay for that and probably apologize to these ladies.”