White supremacists charged in hate crime

SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Two Southern California men face 11 years in prison for allegedly beating and stomping a man until he was unconscious, in what officials said was a hate crime.

The Orange County district attorney's office said Ryan Joseph Swanson, 19, of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Nicholas Tyler Gibbs, 20, of Anaheim, Calif., assaulted 24-year-old Ryan Honeycutt after he told them he is half-Salvadoran, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Swanson and Gibbs have identified themselves as white supremacists and Swanson allegedly called Honeycutt a "dirty ... Mexican" before the May 26 beating, the district attorney's office said.

Honeycutt suffered a fractured clavicle, a concussion and facial lacerations, the newspaper reported.

Gibbs was already in jail for an unrelated probation violation. Swanson was arrested Monday.