"His actions were too purposeful to not be targeting this couple and that item," Alagaban said. The prosecutor also pointed out all the steps Mayfield took to steal the rainbow flag. He pointed out that Mayfield passed three or four neighbors' homes - and all the flags hanging on their homes. Prosecutor John Alagaban was more than a bit skeptical. Mayfield had testified that he thought the flag was a spring ornament, not a gay pride flag, and that he had no idea that the his neighbors were gay. "Just because the victims are gay doesn't make it a hate crime," Davis has said. James Martin Davis, who is Mayfield's attorney, argued the act was a drunken prank and not a hate crime. Mayfield was accused of taking the flag from the porch of a lesbian couple who lived near him, setting it on fire and waving it in the middle of the street in March 2015. Prosecutors said that the charge was prosecuted as a felony, not a misdemeanor, because the incident was investigated as a hate crime. The Omaha World-Herald ( ) reports that 24-year-old Cameron Mayfield was found guilty Wednesday of arson. (AP) - An Omaha man accused of stealing a gay pride rainbow flag and burning it has been found guilty.
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