On Sept. 23, 2020, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron addressed the news media after a state grand jury announced it did not indict any of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers in the police shooting death of a 26-year-old Black woman, Breonna Taylor. One officer, Brett Hankison, was indicted for "wanton endangerment" for firing his gun into a neighbor's home.
Shortly after the decision was announced, a rumor started to circulate on social media holding that Cameron, a Republican and the first Black man to serve as attorney general in Kentucky, was married to the granddaughter of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
One Facebook user wrote: "In case you didn't know, Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron married Mitch McConnell’s granddaughter last month!" This rumor was frequently accompanied by a set of images supposedly showing Cameron's wife:
