June 29, 2016

WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — A popular YouTube personality was charged Wednesday with making a false report after alleging he was assaulted in a hate crime outside a club in West Hollywood.

Calum McSwiggan, 26, of London, faces one misdemeanor count of false report to a peace officer that a felony was committed when he claimed in an Instagram post dated June 27 that he was attacked while at The Abbey in WeHo.

He faces a possible maximum sentence of up to a year in county jail if convicted as charged.

According to the Instagram post – which depicts McSwiggan laying in a hospital bed with apparent injuries to his face and neck – towards the end of the evening he “was separated from [his] friends and beaten up by three guys” after attending the VidCon video conference in Anaheim.

“The authorities should have been there to help and protect me but instead they treated me like a second class citizen,” McSwiggan wrote. “With three broken teeth and six stitches in my forehead, I’ve never felt so terrified to be a gay man in the public eye.”

But according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, responding deputies “were unable to substantiate the assault” and found McSwiggan had “no visible injuries”.

YouTube Personality Charged With Making False Report Of Hate Crime At WeHo Bar