Conservative activist Scott Presler has put together yet another group of volunteers to pick up trash from the streets of Baltimore.
It was the fourth time that Presler has embarked on the sanitation quest, sparked by President Donald Trump’s criticism of the city’s maintenance record.
“We’re officially the trash brigade,” Presler wrote in a Dec. 14 post on Twitter, posting a video from the cleanup that day.
“Whether rain, nor sleet, nor snow, we’re on a mission to bring love into urban areas across America.”
The city has struggled with trash on its streets for years, and its shrinking population has left more than 16,000 uninhabitable empty houses. Many of the homes are in an unsafe condition—the city owns many of them, but only comes once a year to clean up the alleys, Presler was previously told.
Some of the most squalid neighborhoods are in West Baltimore, where Presler focused his efforts.
Presler pulled off the first cleanup on Aug. 5, removing over 12 tons of trash with the help of some 200 volunteers.
He said in a prior interview with The Epoch Times that he was tired of people talking about what should be done and wanted to do something about the problem in Baltimore, “even if it’s just me on a street corner picking up trash.”