Glendale's Son, Robert William.
- glendaleout
- 3 days ago
- 4 min read
Updated: 5 hours ago
So much ado about a new police chief! Local boy done good!
Of Armenian and Assyrian descent (though at some point erasing it*) little "Robert William" arrived in Glendale when he was 7 yrs old. John Muir Elementary, Glendale HS, sashay, shantay, Glendale Police Department, 20-something years: Chief.
Hello, darlings, so happy to be back. A full baked desert cleansing does the soul wonders, I anticipate my semen levels will normalize shortly. Nothing like draining the pipes at inordinate temperatures to cleanse the palate. Or many.
As Glendale Public Works Department finalizes its deep clean sopping and mopping of the gism-fest following the anointing of our newly ordained Chief Robert William, the kids at glendaleOUT are all up in a yammer about Glendale Police Department history and its newest chapter. Let's let them take the romp, shall we?
It all started here.
That's Spotlight Wannabe Jordan Henry, and this was from her run for city council in 2022. Ms. Henry came in seventh out of eight, last place being a fellow "parental rights" colleague. Had that vote not been split Ms. Henry still would have come in second to last, she would have then been sixth.
Mrs. Henry was already on our big gay radar; she'd adopted MAGAs national CRT playbook, absorbed GUSD parents critical of their COVID protocol, and generated targeted attacks on our educators for enacting standard state mandated curriculum. Her campaign would attract deep pockets outside of Glendale and she was also an early guest on Wisenuts the May prior to city council election.*
In response to Glendale Police Officers Association endorsement - Ms. Henry's ONLY endorsement - glendaleOUT snail-mailed and emailed them their concerns; a community not safe for all is a community not safe for any. The mascot of GPOA at the time was this dolt, and yes, this was the official GPOA President Picture on their website. As one gO person put it, he looks like he's at a frat house kegger. No longer President, he's still on the board though the picture is not.
One could rightly assume the response to the email: there wasn't one.
glendaleOUT saw Glendale had a GPD problem, and steps were taken. We've had sit-downs with two previous police chiefs. One was asked if there were any LGBTQIA+ officers in the department. He allowed there were not, or none that he was aware of. The cohort in the room said there was that one person but they weren't out. We walked away not too surprised that person was not out, wondering what the environment in this fraternity must be like. Another Chief gave a soliloquy of smooth talk that made it abundantly clear it would be fraternity first, the one that was anti inclusion and fond of a good keg. (Bud-light, we'll guess, standard and tepid.) During that tenure there would indeed be the usual LGBT-virtue signalling that, sadly, gives the daily joes and janes and jacks and jills the warm fuzzies: bases are covered.
Except they are not and never were. When the national hook to hysteria shifted from CRT to LGBTQIA+ kids, especially trans and gender questioning kids, Ms. Henry also shifted.
One day, a year or more later, an atypical group of LGBTQIA+ locals crossed paths for some todo, and June 6, 2023 came up. We were all there. We'd never previously compared notes and there we were, each independently observing examples of police bias in response to this action.
Glendale Police Department, woefully out of their league in the moment, equally clearly biased towards their endorsed candidate - who that day was accompanied by Wisenuts, LOKA, lots of J6er-Proud Boy alumn, lots of imported agitators.
Post-riot news helicopters show the barricade earlier unfurled to separate two sides with an overwhelming amount of people on the side of hate and agitation, yet the police on the other side of the barricade with their back turned away from them, policing queers and allies.
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No one ever came to us. Targeting and harassing the Queer community and their allies, including threats to their public safety, escalated and no one ever asked, "How are you? What can we do to help?" Instead, we got this.
*Yep, just three months after the June 6 riot and at the height of LGBTQIA+Allies hate and harassment, then Captain Robert William seized the moment to go on the podcast that at that point was hosting all the key players in that campaign, and that continues to provide a platform for people who promote antisemitic conspiracy theories and advocate explicitly for white nationalism.
The Captain went on Wisenuts in uniform with a GPD recruitment crawl running the entire episode, telling charming stories and recruiting from their audience, deemed prime GPD candidate material.
Here is where he shared the warm and fuzzy story about why he anglicized his name. At the same time trans people in Glendale (and on this podcast) were being physically and verbally harassed, their dead names weaponized, this boy in blue got a free pass erasing his cultural legacy.
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The prolonged circle jerk between announcement and swearing in allowed for lots of Robert William love.
Transphobe, homophobe, Queen of Tantrums but only Princess of Disinformation Ara Najarian:
“I’ve known the chief for over two decades. He knows what Glendale is all about. He carries those values. He is sensitive, he is kind, he is compassionate. Firm but fair.”
Glendale City Manager Roubik Golanian.
“Robert understands the City of Glendale’s values, our expectations, and our commitment to providing exceptional public service."
Current Mayor Ardy Kassakhian.
“We live in a time when people are asking difficult questions about institutions, about leadership and about the responsibilities that come with authority. The headlines change almost daily, the debates are often loud yet beneath all that noise, most people are asking a much simpler question: Can we trust the people who serve? Trust is not built through press releases or policies alone. It’s built one interaction at a time."
We also know what the city is about. We also understand the city's values. One interaction at a time.
