Following a successful cleanup effort in Baltimore, conservative activist Scott Presler and a team of volunteers helped clean up 50 tons of trash in Los Angeles this weekend over a nine-hour period.
In a video showing the final result of a completely cleaned up homeless camp, Presler said it was “one of the proudest moments of my life.”
Presler pointed out that if this is what could be done in a matter of hours with volunteers, “imagine what we could do with the millions California receives in taxpayer $.”
He also wondered why he was there and not elected officials.
It’s almost 9 a.m. & we’re removing waste from a homeless camp in Los Angeles.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 21, 2019
Why is an outsider from Northern Virginia here & not California elected leadership? #LosAngelesCleanup pic.twitter.com/yqW2pxKA3c
We’re making incredible progress.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 21, 2019
This is an act of love. #LosAngelesCleanup pic.twitter.com/lbR7tU8VPU
This is one of the proudest moments of my life.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 21, 2019
I’ll never forget the day we cleaned up a homeless camp in LA. #LosAngelesCleanup pic.twitter.com/jTetowuLAu
We cleaned up 50 tons of trash in Los Angeles.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 21, 2019
Yes, 50 tons.
In 9 hours. #LosAngelesCleanup
The Los Angeles cleanup was an act of love. #SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/qF66DXbfc4
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 22, 2019
If a team of 200+ volunteers
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 22, 2019
can clean up 50 tons of trash in 9 hours with no support from the city,
imagine what we could do with the millions California receives in taxpayer $.
Why am I here & elected officials aren’t??#LosAngeles
Parts of Los Angeles are so dirty the team had to take extra precautions to stay safe during the cleanup to "avoid being exposed to life-threatening diseases including typhus, typhoid fever and flesh-eating bacteria," The Daily Caller reports.
“L.A. is completely different than Baltimore,” Presler said. “How crazy is it that it’s 2019 — not the Stone Age — and here we are, having to worry about these kinds of diseases?”
He added that the CEO of a Christian homeless shelter in Los Angeles called Union Rescue Mission, Rev. Andy Bales, inspired him to take such protective measures after reading Bales’s story about how he lost his leg to infection after stepping in human waste while helping homeless community members on Skid Row. (DC)
While the mainstream media may have ignored the effort, social media didn't.
This weekend Trump supporters volunteered their time to clean up a Democrat city
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 22, 2019
Media silent
While the left pretends to care about the climate they aren’t cleaning up streets, instead they are using children as political tools
Make this go viral.
pic.twitter.com/4e4yofJdUV
Why isn't @CBSNews @CBSThisMorning @ABC @NBCNews covering this humanitarian act of caring for others???
— Deborah Carroll (@brink53d) September 21, 2019
Thank you SCOTT! This is DISGUSTING! Just mind blowing this is going on in our country!
— Florence MAGA (@ephipnanies) September 21, 2019
We may be on different sides, but that doesn't matter. This is a good deed. Thank you guys.
— Richard Evan (@sludgefactory86) September 23, 2019
We may be on different sides, but that doesn't matter. This is a good deed. Thank you guys.
— Richard Evan (@sludgefactory86) September 23, 2019
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