Riverside County paid a man nearly $500,000 after he dared a deputy to arrest him in 2022.
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Robert Glaser responded to a senior living facility in Temecula after residents called a complaint about a belligerent man in the area. Gregory Whaling, who has used a cane since his double-knee replacement, walked by the deputy as he spoke to the man in question.
The man complained about being harassed by the facility’s residents and pointed out Whaling as a person who has told him to stop being shirtless multiple times. After momentarily acknowledging that he’d complained about the man in the past, Whaling continued to walk away as the deputy told him to leave…