Recently released video from police body cameras is providing more details about Taylor Frankie Paul, a former contestant on The Bachelorette, and her arrest in 2023.
TMZ recently released new bodycam footage from the night of the “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star’s arrest. The footage shows the 27-year-old visibly drunk and arguing with a police officer.
During a particularly emotional moment, the reality star became so upset she paused to call her father for assistance while the officer, who was visibly frustrated, attempted to question her. She also seemed to challenge him by asking what his role was.
The video was filmed just before Paul was arrested. It came after she confessed to throwing metal chairs at her boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Paul and Mortensen to request comment.
Okay, so right away in this new segment, you can just feel the tension. We jump right into things with Paul visibly upset during an interview – she’s out on the porch, clearly agitated. Meanwhile, inside the house, Mortensen is giving her side of the story. It’s a really dynamic setup – you immediately get a sense of the conflict.
Speaking with slurred speech, she wondered aloud why she was outside and he was inside, requesting they switch places. She insisted the house belonged to her.
The officer, whose voice stays calm, offers to do just that ‘in a minute.’
He trailed off, saying he’d hoped some fresh, cold air would feel good, then was interrupted as Paul turned and opened the front door while he was still speaking.
She marched into the house, where Mortensen was speaking to another officer, and interrupted them.
‘You’re upset, I’m upset. Get out of my house,’ she tells Mortensen wearily.
He mumbled something to her that wasn’t clear on the bodycam recording, and Paul seemed to repeat it back to him.
She tells him, “Get out of my house!” as she and Mortensen meet near her kitchen.
The officer seemed annoyed by the disruption, but Paul didn’t seem to notice, heading straight for a cabinet to pour himself a glass of water.
‘Hey, Taylor, when I told you how this was going down, OK, we’re trying to be kind right now and just find out what’s going on, but if you stop listening to the things we’re saying —’ he says as Paul whips out her cell phone and begins dialing.
She said to the officer, ‘You’re fine, everything’s okay, I appreciate you being polite,’ while she looked through her phone, seemingly searching for a phone number.
According to what Paul seems to be saying, a man pushed her into the garage, near her child’s belongings, while the officer was trying to talk to her.
‘Your children are here, and you need to stop yelling,’ he instructs her in a more forceful tone.
She absently agreed, saying, “Yes, that makes sense,” before holding the phone to her ear and starting a call.
He explained that when he asked Paul not to make a call at that moment, Paul went ahead and did it anyway. Paul then wondered if that was against the law, but the speaker assured him it wasn’t.
Paul suddenly becomes tearful as she says on the phone, ‘Dad, please come to my house.
‘Dakota pushed me in my garage, and the police are saying that I can’t talk about it,’ she gasps.
The officer reassured her that wasn’t their meaning, and gently asked her to breathe deeply, explaining she seemed very drunk.
He urges her again to keep her voice down because her children are trying to sleep.
She asked, ‘Upstairs? With the white noise machine?’ and gestured towards the upper floor. The officer gently reminded her that one of her children was actually sleeping on the couch right beside them.
After he asks her to ‘chill,’ she interrupts to ask, ‘Are you married, with kids?’
He dismissed it as unimportant, but Paul disagreed, explaining that it helped explain her current feelings.
He added that his personal life wasn’t important at the moment, explaining that his priority was to help me relax.
He began to explain that he was prepared to assist, but she cut him off, asking for a glass of water.
‘You can have water,’ the officer replies, but Paul asks again, ‘Am I OK to get that.’
‘I said you are,’ he reiterates coldly before she smacks a plastic glass against the countertop.
I watched her get a drink from the fridge, and it brought me back to what he’d said earlier about whether she’d had too much to drink. It was clearly still bothering her, and me too, honestly.
She said she was barely drunk, rating her level of intoxication as a two out of ten, and then jokingly asked for an explanation of how that could be considered ‘extremely’ intoxicated.
She playfully challenges him to question her, and then jokingly suggests he use a breathalyzer, mispronouncing it as ‘blezaryzer’ before quickly correcting herself.
She adds that she got a ‘safe driver’ to take her home that evening from her ‘girls’ night.’
Paul then tells her that her father is on his way to see what’s happening, but the officer doesn’t seem concerned. She responds by saying he clearly doesn’t understand how she’s feeling.
‘He just pushed me in the garage,’ she says of Mortensen as she begins to tear up again.
The officer attempted to reassure her that he was simply there to help her relax, and that he needed to wait until the other officer finished speaking with Mortensen before he could talk to her.
Paul accuses him of being on ‘his side’ through her sobs.
He attempted to explain, but she cut him off, claiming her hand hurt. However, she refused when the officer suggested calling paramedics to examine it.
‘Yelling, is that a crime?’ she asks him, and he clarifies that it’s not illegal.
Paul is clearly in distress, crying and covering her face. When the officer offers support, like a crisis counselor, she simply says she wants the person causing her pain to leave.
Paul then approached the sofa and seemed to apologize to her child, who was unconscious in the police video.
She simply wanted to wish everyone goodnight and go to sleep, and wondered if that was alright. She playfully asked if wanting to do so was a crime.
The officer explained she needed to wait while they questioned Mortensen. Meanwhile, Paul, now calm, asked if he could use the restroom.
The officer questioned if she needed to do it immediately. She replied it would only take ‘two seconds,’ then shut the bathroom door, ending the video.
I was shocked when the Daily Mail released that video. It showed Paul getting incredibly upset with her boyfriend – apparently, he wouldn’t take her to a concert because she’d had too much to drink. It was a really difficult thing to watch, honestly.
The mother, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, became extremely angry and threw chairs during an argument with her boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen. Sadly, one of the chairs accidentally struck her five-year-old daughter, Indy, in the head.
According to video footage, when police responded to a call in a Salt Lake City suburb, the social media personality claimed she was frightened and had accidentally wet herself.
Paul was arrested on February 17 at her home in Herriman, Utah, on misdemeanor charges.
After Mr. Mortensen showed police video of the chair striking the victim, the charges were increased to include aggravated assault, endangering a child, and domestic violence committed in front of a child.
Two weeks after the incident, the Salt Lake County District Attorney filed charges against Paul. He was accused of two felony counts of domestic violence committed in front of a child, resulting in injury, as well as misdemeanor charges of child abuse causing injury and criminal mischief.
If found guilty, she could receive up to five years in state prison for each of the three felony charges. Her next court date is April 14th.
I seriously can’t get enough of Paul! I started following her on TikTok ages ago, and it’s been amazing watching her grow. She has over 4 million followers now – and deservedly so! She just shares little snippets of her life, you know? It’s so relatable, seeing her daily routine, her adorable kids… and honestly, even what’s been happening with her and her husband, it’s just… real. I’m totally hooked!
Last summer, she surprised her followers by announcing her divorce from Tate, explaining it stemmed from a boundary she crossed during a casual exploration of open relationships.
Soft swinging involves couples swapping partners but not engaging in full sex.
After splitting with Tate — the father of her children — she started hooking up with Mortensen.
Body camera footage from the night of the arrest shows Herriman police officers Ben Rugebregt and Alex Felsing approaching Paul’s home after a neighbor called 911.
Both Paul and Mortensen, her boyfriend of six months, are seen answering the door.
When the officers ask them what was going on, Dakota tells them Taylor was ‘hammered.’
Taylor replied, confirming the same about him. She then informed the police that Dakota had physically pushed her into the garage.
Rugebregt and Felsing intervened and pulled the couple apart, leading Paul outside. Officers tried to speak with her, but she was visibly upset and struggled to speak clearly.
‘I’m emotionally hurting and going through a divorce,’ she tells them.
But seconds later she turns belligerent and says: ‘I don’t give a f*** anymore.
‘I don’t give a f*** about him,’ she says, referring to Mortensen. ‘I just want him out.
We got into a physical fight – I pushed and hit him, and he pushed back. Honestly, I’m not even bothered by what he did. I completely lost my temper because he pushed me, and now I just want him to leave.
She explained that after picking her up from a night out with her friends, her boyfriend verbally attacked her during the entire drive home.
Taylor told police she threw objects at Dakota because she felt frightened and he had initially pushed her.
She also told police she wet her pants because she was scared.
According to a video statement, 30-year-old Mortensen told police he picked up Taylor after her night out with friends, and that she was intoxicated.
He said they had an agreement to stay away from alcohol as he’s a recovering addict.
He informed the police that Paul is dealing with difficult personal problems, and alcohol makes the situation much worse, causing her to become very upset.
He had plans to attend a concert with a friend, but when Paul learned about it, she asked if she could join and requested a ride from the party.
Mortensen said they initially planned to pick up Paul’s ID at her house before heading to the concert, but when he got there, he could tell she wasn’t well enough to go.
He said she then became angry and began to berate him on the drive back.
When they returned to her home, the family member who had been babysitting Ocean, their two-year-old son, was leaving.
Mortensen explained that he attempted to leave for the next hour and a half to calm things down, but Paul blocked him from leaving.
Honestly, it was scary to witness. He told me she actually threw her phone at him. Then, she grabbed his truck keys, climbed onto the vehicle, and started repeatedly slamming the doors. It was a really intense situation.
She threw a wooden toy set at him, damaging his truck. She also threw metal chairs with such force that they left holes in the walls.
Sergeant Rugebregt reported seeing several metal chairs and other things from around the house scattered on the floor near the front door. He believes the chairs may have been from a kitchen island.
‘I observed a case of roses on the ground by the kitchen island,’ he added.
Mortensen said all of this violence took place in front of Indy. Ocean was upstairs asleep.
He explained to police that he became frightened for his safety when chairs began falling on him. He said one chair hit his shoulder and then struck Indy on the head.
He admitted pushing Paul out of his way, because she wouldn’t let him leave.
‘She fell down because she was hammered,’ he said.
The cops clearly did not realize that Paul was an internet celebrity.
After Mortensen inquired about the potential release of her mugshot, an officer reportedly said it wasn’t a noteworthy event, implying it wouldn’t be publicized.
When police arrived to arrest Paul for domestic violence, his partner asked the officer, confused, ‘So he’s not getting arrested? He pushed me, but I’m the one being arrested?’
Honestly, even after the officer put the handcuffs on, she kept asking him what she’d even done to deserve being arrested. It was a really confusing situation, and she just wanted an explanation, which is totally understandable!
She worried that Dakota wouldn’t accept her arrest, and exclaimed in disbelief, ‘I wet myself and now I’m being arrested?’
During the arrest Paul’s parents, Jeremy and Liann May, arrived to take the kids.
While being handcuffed Paul told her mother: ‘I’m being arrested for pushing Dakota.’
Liann replied, ‘Yeah that’s domestic violence.’
Even as officers put her in the patrol car, Paul continued to protest her arrest, telling the officer, ‘He hit me as well, and I’m a woman.’
Before the police took her away, Paul’s mother spoke to her through the car window, clearly upset. She told her directly, ‘You shouldn’t have let my grandchildren witness this, and I can’t believe you’re acting this way.’
After a break from social media following her arrest, Paul shared on TikTok that she’s been managing her depression and anxiety with Zoloft and therapy to address past trauma.
Oh my gosh, she spent time with Viggo’s family in Logan, Utah! It just melts my heart knowing how much she loves them – they seem so wonderful! And she’s being a smart mom, keeping her kids off TikTok for now, though she says it’s not a permanent thing. Honestly, I’m just so happy to hear anything about her, even if she didn’t talk about all the legal stuff going on. It’s just nice to know she’s doing okay and surrounded by people she loves!
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