Vice President Pence: "Rioting and looting is not peaceful protest. Burning businesses is not free speech. Attacks on innocent civilians and police officers have no place in our society, and those who do these things will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

"A resolution offered by Del. Dave LaRock (R-33) calling on Virginia Health Commissioner to retract his March directive urging doctors to limit the use hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 cases failed in the House of Delegates last week.

While most medical authorities, and agencies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, continue to state the use of the long-established antimalarial drug is likely to do more harm than good in the treatment of COVID-19 cases,LaRock touted other studies that support use of the drug.

Although the debate over the treatment largely has been partisan, with President Donald J. Trump as its most high-profile advocate, more than one-third of House Republicans joined Democrats in voting down the joint resolution."

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VIRGINIA: "The Leesburg Police Department is investigating an incident of destruction of town property that occurred Friday evening near Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s Leesburg home. Just before 7 p.m. Sept. 11, Leesburg Police dispatchers received a report of 20 to 25 people wearing black masks on the sidewalk in the historic district. The caller said one member of the group was painting on the sidewalk, which is town-owned property. Officers arrived to find a protest, with at least one of the protesters using a megaphone. “LIBEREN A TODXS” and “FREE THEM ALL!” were painted on the public sidewalk in large blue letters. A member of the crowd who was identified as the organizer advised that they were protesting for the release of all inmates incarcerated in an immigration detention facility in Farmville.

Officers requested that the group reduce their noise and clean up the paint on the sidewalk. The group claimed that the paint was washable and easily removable; however, Loudoun County Fire Rescue was unable to wash it off and the paint has since been removed by the town’s Public Works Department. The incident remains under investigation by the police department’s Criminal Investigation Section."

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President Trump: We have to give our great law enforcement people the respect they deserve. If we don't do that, they can never do their job properly.