Taylor Frankie Paul's ex Dakota Mortensen offers to be arrested in her place in new bodycam video from 2023 dispute

More light has been shed on the night Taylor Frankie Paul was arrested for domestic violence after she hurled metal chairs at then-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen at her home in 2023. 

New bodycam footage obtained by TMZ shows Paul admitting to throwing the chairs at Mortensen and accusing him of pushing her into a wooden object in the garage. 

Mortensen also asks police if he can be arrested in Paul's place - insisting he couldn't 'do this to her.'

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star plead guilty to aggravated assault over the incident in 2023 - and the dispute ultimately played a crucial role in her Bachelorette downfall.

In the new video, Mortensen alleges Paul inflicted injuries on him and that she was 'not doing OK in life.' 

Representatives for Paul declined to offer comment over the new video when reached by The Daily Mail. Mortensen has not yet responded to a comment request.  

After police spoke with both Mortensen and Paul, Mortensen asks the officer if he's able to go in her place - an offer the police rejects as she was the 'primary aggressor.' 

'Can I go?' Mortensen asks.

'No, because the way it works is she was the primary aggressor of everything,' the police officer responds. 

'I can't do this to her, dude,' Mortensen replies. 

The officer tells Mortensen: 'The reality of this is that you were victimized tonight and that's why we're here,' he said. 'We don't want further violence and maybe this is the reality check she needs that like, "Hey, I need to get things in check."'

The officer then presents Mortensen with paperwork. 'I can't make you fill that out. It's voluntary. But I mean, that's your side of the story,' the cop said. 

'She is alleging a different side.'

'I guess that's the only thing,' Mortensen replies. 'if she's wanting to push stuff then I'm gonna have to, but I truly just want her to just get help and just that's that.'

'I understand that and that's what I'm hoping this results in,' officer said.

Mortensen is surprised to hear Paul will be charged with domestic violence.  

'Oh my gosh,' he says, burying his face in his hands after the officer tells him about Paul's charge. 

'I know that's hard to hear but that's the reality of the situation and I'm glad that it wasn't worse,' the officer says. 'What if the off chance she grabbed a kitchen knife, like it's already clear that she wasn't thinking straight, right?' he added. 

'Normally, in your relationship, it's lovey-dovey, honky dory, right? But in this specific case that can't be ignored, what if she was to grab the knife or something else and it escalates again? 

'So the main thing is a reality check saying like, "Hey, that's not OK," and ignoring it is not going to help the problem either. You guys waking up tomorrow morning and acting like it never happened or having one little conversation and maybe a smack on the wrist, that doesn't typically help.'

'Dude, you're right. That's kind of just how it's been too with her,' Mortensen replies. 'That's what she does and then she'll like usually in the morning, she'll act like everything's...'

The video begins with officers arriving to Paul's porch, where shouting can be heard inside the house. 

'What's going on?' police ask the couple once the door opens. 'Nothing,' Paul replies. 

'She is hammered,' Mortensen tells officers. 'And so is he!' Paul insists. 

'I'm sober!' he insists before Paul protests. 

'You need to just calm down,' Mortensen says before Paul throws her arm at him. 

'How about we separate for now,' the officer says before intervening once Paul threw her arm at Mortensen. 'Hey, stop!' 

'He threw me out in the garage!' Paul said.  

'Because she is attacking the crap out of me!' Mortensen says.

'You threw me in the garage!' she repeated. 

'Stop lying!' Mortensen says. 

Paul is shown sobbing inside the home and the duo are eventually separated before she returns to the kitchen to get water. 

Paul whimpers and struggles to pour herself a glass while Mortensen chats with officers in the background about their lives.

'I need to finish talking to you and figure out what happened tonight,' the police tells Paul.  

Eventually the police returns to Mortensen in the kitchen. 'She's so into, it's hard to get out what happened tonight,' the officer said. 

'So what she is telling me is she went out for a girls' night. So, did that happen?' he asked Mortensen, who agreed. 

'And then she said that you came to pick her up from girls' night and then, but couldn't really elaborate. So she said you were b***hing her out in the car,' the officer continued.

'Yeah,' Mortensen replied. 

'So just elaborate on that,' the officer said. 

Mortensen gestures towards Paul. 'For this reason right here. She's not doing OK in life. She's struggling right now. She's going through a lot. Alcohol is something that [audio redacted]. So it's something that we've like communicated as a couple to like try to stay away from those things, right? 

'And for her health right now... she is struggling and adding alcohol to that, just like tonight for a prime example, like just explodes.' 

'... All from tonight?' the officer asks, seemingly referring to the mess in the room.

'I can't even tell you the stuff that just happened,' Mortensen says. 

'I think my finger's broken, dude... is there a bump there?' he asks officers, showing them his elbow. 'Cause that hurts so bad.' 

'She hit me with a freaking metal chair,' he says quietly, adding, 'I was in shock man, feel all the pain.' 

'So you're coming home, you're upset because she's intoxicated,' the officer continues, trying to get Mortensen's version of events. 'It's OK to be upset. She mentioned something about you had like a concert or something?'

'Yeah,' Mortensen continues. 'She was having girls' night, and I was like, "hey,  I'm gonna go to a concert with my friends." And she was like, "Oh no. Like, come pick me up. I want to come with you."

'So that's why I went and picked her up, and that was our plan. We were going to come back here because she didn't have her ID on her. She was going to grab her ID here and we were gonna go to the concert, but once I picked her up, I was like, "No...   absolutely not,' he said, with the police officer clarifying Paul was 'in no condition' to go out. 

'That was pissing her off,' Mortensen said, adding he became upset more over what she was saying to him rather than the concert squabble. 

Mortensen said Paul proceeded to say 'awful things to' him. 'Tearing me down, I guess.'

'So, that sucked, but I also just went silent for a good 30, 40 minutes too while she was just screaming and crying,' he said. 

'It wasn't really anything crazy to be honest with you until we got here,' he said, alleging Paul 'threw her phone at me... in front of like two of her family members and she's like screaming at me.'

Paul then returns inside and demands Mortensen leave the residence. 'You're outside, I'm inside. This is my house. Get out.' 

'Taylor, OK,' Mortensen says. 

'No, "Taylor OK,"' Paul replies. 'Get out of my house.' 

Taylor is then shown getting arrested for domestic violence in another video after explaining her side to police on her porch. 

'All I know is I peed my pants, he pushed me into it, but I reacted, sure. I threw it at him,' she said when asked about what had occurred by the truck. 

As she speaks, one of her children peers through the curtains of the window and sees their mother speaking with police before closing the blinds.  

Part of the audio is redacted however Paul admits to throwing the chairs at Mortensen and explains she was 'fighting back' after he allegedly pushed her into a 'wooden thing.'  

'I threw them at him, yeah,' she said before the audio was redacted. 'He's fighting back. I peed my pants [audio redacted] in my garage. He pushed me into the wooded thing so I reacted.'

After the police tell her she is being placed under arrest, Paul is shocked to learn Mortensen is not arrested.  

'So Is he not at all?' she asks of Mortensen.

'Not tonight, no,' the officer replies. 

'I'm confused, so he pushed me and I'm  under arrest. Why?' she asks before eventually turning around to be handcuffed. 

The police said she was arrested 'based on the evidence' visible that night: 'All the stuff on the ground and you throwing things at him and all that.'

'When he sees this, he's not going to agree to it,' she told police, seemingly referring to her being arrested. 

'I did talk to him and I told him how tonight was going to go... he understood, he was very upset about it.' 

Another video obtained by TMZ shows an emotional Paul speaking with one of the officers in her kitchen while Mortensen is being questioned by the other cop. 

'You're good. No worries. You're being nice, I get it. He pushed me in my garage, the man in my garage, to my kids' stuff,' she tells the officer.

'Your children are here and you need to stop yelling and you need to take your volume down considerably,' says the officer, who later notes one of her children is in vicinity on the couch.

'You're good,' she says, going through her phone. 'Understandable. You're right.'

'So when I asked you not to make a phone call right now and you're doing it,' he says.

'Is what? Illegal?' she replies.

'No but what I'm saying is you're being problematic.'

'Dad,' she begins to cry. 'Please come to my house. Dakota pushed me in my garage and the police are saying that I can't talk about,' she said.

'No, that's not what we're saying at all,' the officer said.

She then accused the officer of having no 'empathy' for her situation. 'Go for it, officer, who has no empathy for me with a man pushing me into a garage,' she said.

'I absolutely do have empathy with you,' he said.

'What is your job exactly, to arrest me or to arrest him? What is it?' she asks after he explained his job.

'My job is to assist Officer Rugebregt in making sure everybody stays calm. And he's doing an investigation because we're getting calls from neighbors saying, "we hear screaming outside."'

Paul's season of The Bachelorette was canceled just days before its premiere after a shocking 2023 video surfaced of the 31-year-old attacking her then-boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, 33, with her young daughter Indy present.

That case was public knowledge for years before another domestic violence investigation was opened over a supposed incident from this February. Mortensen was granted a restraining order against Paul on Friday after characterizing her as an 'immediate threat' to his safety.

The scandal erupted after People reported filming had been paused on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives over 'serious' issues involving Paul.

The Draper City Police Department confirmed to the publication the existence of an open 'domestic assault investigation' into Paul and Mortensen.

'Allegations have been made in both directions,' a spokesman for the department told the publication, adding 'contact was made with involved parties on [February] 24 and 25.'

A Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star has since confirmed the cast had agreed to pause filming due to the scandal.

Disney Entertainment Television, which owns ABC, released a statement confirming the company had made the decision not to move forward with the new season of The Bachelorette, just hours after the footage of the 2023 domestic violence incident was released.

Disney said its 'focus is on supporting the family' after canceling the 22nd season of the reality show, which was set to begin airing on Sunday, March 22.

In the now-viral video of the altercation between Paul and her ex, the reality star is seen having an outburst, throwing a stool at Mortensen, while a child, her daughter Indy, now eight, was present.

Mortensen, who was filming the incident, said in the clip: 'This is called physical abuse.'

The child can be heard crying as Mortensen and Paul continued fighting. Mortensen then said, 'Your daughter just got hit in the head by a metal chair.'

Together, they have a son named Ever, who is two years old. Paul also has a daughter, Indy, and a son, Ocean, with ex-husband Tate.

The reality star, who made her name appearing on Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, released a statement after the cancellation alleging she suffered 'extensive mental and physical abuse as well as threats of retaliation' in silence for years.

'Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser and taking steps to ensure that she and her children are protected from any further harm,' the rep said. 

They further claimed Paul has been staying quiet 'out of fear of further abuse, retaliation, and public shaming' and is now 'seeking support,' going through her options and 'preparing to own and share her story.'

Mortensen has since denied 'baseless claims' made about himself and their relationship in a statement for The Daily Mail.

In a statement, he said: 'As anyone who has seen the video will understand, this is a deeply upsetting situation. I am, unfortunately, used to these baseless claims about me and our relationship, which I categorically deny.

'I am focusing on our son and his safety, and hope that Taylor will do the same.'