The Law Office Of Rick Horowitz

10/19/2026

I was driving myself to the ER when Apple called. We had a pre-scheduled tech appointment. I calmly explained how I needed to reschedule because I was having a heart attack. My heart might’ve been in trouble, but apparently my telephone manners were still working.

The ER doc later decided it was gastric reflux and wanted to send me home. My mother, who had once been a cardiac nurse, questioned his reading of the EKG. Getting through to him took more than medical knowledge, though. (Spoiler alert: I’m writing this, so you already know what happened. THAT’S not what the essay is about.)

Yesterday’s essay looks at that encounter regarding power, perspective, and the distance between knowing something and being believed. There’s also an experiment involving people drawing E’s on their foreheads. It has more bearing on the situation than I would have expected.

“What It Takes to Be Heard,” on Coffee and a Corndog:

A heart attack, my mother, and the distance between knowing something and being believed

10/19/2026

I don’t care what you think about her politics. I’ve never been a fan of what I’ve heard, either. Nor paid her a lot of attention in the past.

I will now.

What is being done here is nothing short of disgusting.

The United States has lost its way.

The former president posted a lengthy statement calling President Donald Trump’s treatment of Ilhan Omar a “transparent” effort to intimidate her.

10/18/2026

Records show a former police officer in Georgia shared her Flock camera login with her husband, who works as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

He used the account for nearly 1,000 license plate searches across six states, which mostly involved vehicles registered to Hispanic owners.

🔗 https://www.kwtx.com/2026/10/16/police-officer-fired-sharing-flock-login-with-husband-who-works-ice/

10/18/2026

If only the cops had shown up on time. A few more civilians could have been shot when the donuts were put down and the fear took over the blue men.

A chaotic scene unfolded in Fresno’s Tower District last night as it was reported by multiple eyewitnesses there was a shooting last night that resulted in one man being shot in his leg after him and another guy were getting into a physical altercation. a third male subject pulled out a pistol and shot off rounds towards the victim. Which resulted in him getting hit in the leg, another male was shot in his upper body a woman also broke her ankle during the chaos and another male subject was seen being taken by ambulance.

This is a developing story, more details will be posted as information is gathered

Earlier this week we asked

What do you think it's going to take to curb this recent trend of violence in the Tower?

10/18/2026

Cop lies. I've started the video from the point where he is lying. But you can back up to the beginning if you follow the link and want to see it.

Lying through his teeth and there is video evidence showing it. But the cop's response to the videos?

"It's no admissible."

Which I find interesting, because if the cop had video, that would be admissible. If the cop received Ring camera video, that would be admissible. Maybe it's because of some stupid rule in their jurisdiction.

Bottom line? This cop, like almost all cops, lies when it suits his needs.

And it's all on video for you to see.

EDIT: The cop was apparently wrong about admissibility. There was a jury trial because (of course) the DA refused to drop it, even after seeing the evidence, and the video was shown to the jury and judge. The jury went out and the judge asked for motions. The defense moved for a directed verdict of acquittal and it took "about a minute" for the judge to grant that motion.

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10/18/2026

My mother saved my life with a question that had nothing to do with medicine.

I was 53 and having a heart attack. The ER doctor was preparing to send me home with a diagnosis of acid reflux, and my mother’s questions about the EKG weren’t getting anywhere. Then she changed tack.

That encounter led me into some research on power, a strange experiment involving E’s drawn on foreheads, and the distance between knowing something and being believed.

My new essay, “What It Takes to Be Heard,” is up on Coffee and a Corndog.

A heart attack, my mother, and the distance between knowing something and being believed

10/18/2026

It's ugly out there these days.

Glad I've become old and a homebody.

People want to get together and talk but not point fingers about the problems in the Tower District.

EVERYBODY knows exactly what the fu***ng problems are.

While our businesses are all dying from FEAR of a once beautiful place to be all the other’s are MAKING MONEY from it!

Mayor Jerry Dyer help us find a new home in Fresno where people feel safe to come down too. Or BETTER YET - FIX IT!!!!

We all deserve so god damn much better than this!

10/17/2026

“Remember who you’re talking to.”

My mother said it when I was trying to tell her about something painful. Years later, those words took on another meaning in a courtroom.

This essay started with a passage by Amrita Pritam and led me into a journal entry from 1989 that briefly stopped me from writing at all. Then came a judge’s unexpected phone call, a different Mama’s advice, and the question of what we do with the marks our lives leave on us.

Being heard can change a life. Share this to help provoke a conversation!

The marks we carry. The marks we leave.

10/15/2026

Virtually this entire administration is made up of liars and frauds.

Zacharia has previously referred to herself as a lawyer in public appearances.

10/15/2026

I'm not sure why Facebook repeatedly refuses to include an option for me to share things like this to my law office page.

I can't help but think it's because Mark Suckerberg does all he can to fe***te and otherwise make cops feel good about their sociopathy which is exceeded only by his own.

Charlotte police officers kept a group text where they used the n word while talking about using force and firing their guns at Black residents, and where they competed over who could pull over the most Black drivers. That’s according to multiple anonymous sources who spoke to WBTV in Charlotte, and if it holds up, this isn’t a few bad apples. It’s a scoreboard.

How it came out matters. No one inside the department raised the alarm. The State Bureau of Investigation was looking into Officer Seth Elliott, who was arrested in July and charged with illegally accessing a government computer. According to search warrants reported by WSOC TV, Elliott admitted he ran an undercover officer’s license plate through the Flock camera network and a state database as a favor for a college friend who turned out to be the target of a drug investigation. When investigators downloaded Elliott’s phone and handed the data to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department, WBTV reports, the thread was sitting right there.

Since then, more than half a dozen officers from the North Tryon, Freedom and University City divisions have either quit or been recommended for termination after an internal review board met last week, according to WBTV. The department answered with a statement about integrity, accountability and transparency. Elliott didn’t respond when WBTV reached out.

Think about what this means for people in Charlotte. Every traffic stop on that tally was a real person running late for work, picking up their kids, or just driving while Black. Every report and every use of force tied to these officers now deserves a hard second look. And the Flock piece shouldn’t get lost. Supporters pitch these camera networks as smart crime fighting tools, but a surveillance system is only as trustworthy as the people holding the login, and here the people holding it allegedly treated it like a personal favor machine.

And kinda insane that this all came out because a cop was illegally using a flock camera which led to them seeing what was on an officer's phone. Charlotte residents deserve an independent review of the cases these officers touched, not just a press release. Firing people after the fact is the bare minimum. Finding out how a culture like this grew inside the department, and who looked away, is the real work. But then again, this might be the least surprising news story of the day unfortunately.