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Amy & T.J.

NEW Body Cam Video Tells Dakota’s Story of the Taylor Frankie Paul Arrest

Amy & T.J.

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We now know exactly what happened after the cell phone video showing the violent argument between Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex Dakota Mortenson ended. Body camera video from police begins the moment Taylor and Dakota open the door and ends with Dakota begging police to let him go to jail in place of Taylor.  

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

Hey there, everybody.

0:07.8

It is Tuesday, March 24th.

0:10.7

And yes, we all know that cell phone video that got Frankie Taylor Paul's bachelorette season removed from the air.

0:20.1

It ended abruptly.

0:22.3

But now there is new body cam video that literally picks up where that cell phone video drops

0:29.9

off and we see and we hear with our own ears exactly what happened when police got

0:37.4

involved in a way, we actually get to hear

0:40.6

from Taylor's ex-Dakota. He hasn't spoken out publicly, but we hear him directly talking to

0:47.6

police and it fills in a whole lot of blanks. And with that, everyone, welcome to this episode

0:52.6

of Amy and T.J. We both watched this video, babe. It was several minutes long. And I learned a lot. What did you learn? I learned that Dakota looked and sounded completely sober and very sane in direct contrast to how Taylor presented herself.

1:14.8

And it was interesting hearing his version of events.

1:19.5

Yeah, I mean, his version he told to police at the time seems to be very similar to the versions he's telling publicly right now.

1:26.9

He basically, earnestly,

1:30.9

seems like though, he's a guy who wants to help his girlfriend. He doesn't seem, at least in

1:37.2

this video, he doesn't seem angry anymore. We don't know what happened before the video. He

1:41.7

tells the story about how he was picking her up from a girl's night.

1:45.0

She wanted to come with him to a concert.

1:46.9

Somehow an argument ensued, and he realized very quickly she was in no condition to go to this

1:51.8

concert that she wanted to go with him too.

1:55.3

But I was actually moved by how much he seemed to care about her well-being when he had just been

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