BREAKING🚨🏳️‍🌈 Someone spray-painted a SWASTIKA on a California church days after it hosted Pride, and the sheriff says it's not a hate crime. On October 17, Temecula Valley Pride held its celebration in the parking lot of Temecula United Methodist Church. The next evening, someone pried open the box on the church's flagpole and took down the Pride flag, along with the American flag flying beside it. Pastor Drew Davis put up two replacements. "They were up for a couple of days, but those were also taken," he said. About a week later, a staff member found a swastika painted on the back wall of the church. That same day, another Pride flag was stolen. Deputies came out on October 27 and collected evidence. They found no suspects. No one has been arrested. The church's security cameras weren't working when it happened. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says the case is not being investigated as a hate crime. "I don't know how a swastika cannot be perceived as a hate crime," said Justin Daley, president of Temecula Valley Pride. "It really does tell the story itself." Davis, whose own kids are LGBTQ+, says he didn't call it a hate crime at first. "I feel now that this should be considered exactly that," he said. The church has hosted Temecula's Pride celebrations and two queer proms, with a third in the works, and has pushed for LGBTQ awareness at city council and school board meetings. Its Transgender Day of Remembrance service, with a reading of the names of trans people who have died, is still happening on November 19, with tighter security. Davis says the church doesn't plan to just remove the swastika. Instead, it wants to "grow a painting around that imagery to have it dissolve into a mural of peace." His message to whoever did it: "They are still loved."