A 90-year-old Florida man was charged for the second time this week for feeding the homeless and he has no plans of stopping.
Arnold Abbott has been feeding the homeless at a public beach in Fort Lauderdale every Wednesday for the last 23-years, reports ABC News.
His weekly good deed came to a hurdle in the road last month on Oct. 21 when the City of Fort Lauderdale Commission passed an ordinance banning public food sharing.
Abbott was ordered to appear in court on Nov. 2, just days after the ordinance took effect, while he was handing out his third meal of the day.
"One of the police officers said, 'Drop that plate right now,' as if I were carrying a weapon," Abbott told ABC News.
Just four-days-later Abbott was back at the beach tending to his cause.
Since the first story broke Sunday, the Mayor Jack Seiler received backlash on the law, although he appears to be standing by his word.
"It's a public safety issue. It's a public health issue," Mayor Jack Seiler told ABC News. "The experts have all said that if you're going to feed them to get them from breakfast to lunch to dinner, all you're doing is enabling that cycle of homelessness. They don't interact with anyone, they don't receive the aid that they need."
Abbott understands that since he is continuing to feed the homeless the judge could sentence him to up to 60 days in jail and be forced to pay a $500 fine.
"It's our right to feed people, it's our First Amendment right and I believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and we should be allowed to feed our fellow man," Abbott said to Local 10.
Abbott adds that he will definitely go back to the beach to feed the homeless in the future.
"I'll fight for the beach as long as there's birth in my body," he told Local 10.
