Dakota Mortensen shared his side of the story with officers via a phone call after his 2023 domestic dispute with Taylor Frankie Paul.
In a video obtained by Us Weekly, an officer asked whether he was trying to “protect” Taylor’s daughter, to which Dakota replied, “Yeah, she’s on the couch right there.”
Dakota went on to recall worrying that Taylor might accidentally hit her daughter by throwing chairs.
“She threw another one and that’s when I started getting nervous,” he said, adding that he went close to the child to “protect her, which maybe I shouldn’t have done that. [Taylor] threw anothe...
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