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8:30 p.m. — Stephens and someone from CHP express concern about having to take arrestees 100 yards through the crowd to awaiting vehicles. "Are we in a hurry?" one asks. "I'd say, slow this thing down. If we're not in a hurry, I'd rather have more equipment here ... if they're not attacking us right now, let's let them get tired," he says, adding they can put together an operations plan and define goals.

8:31 p.m. — The crowd begins loudly chanting, "Let in water, Let in water." "Let in water?" one of the officers asks. "They have water fountains in there."

8:46 p.m. — Along the line, protesters and officers engage in conversation. "Bro, it's a fucking school building," one protester tells UPD officer Chance Carpenter. "It's your choice to escalate. If you just left them [in the building], nobody would be here right now."

9:19 p.m. — Cress tells UPD officer Joseph Conlon there are a group of deans who are going to enter the building to have a conversation with the group inside. "That's on them, but the order came down that they get entry," Cress says. Conlon returns a few minutes later to tell Cress the deans are in. "They got in before I got down there," he says.

9:42 p.m. — "What's that?" a protesters asks Carpenter, pointing at the less-than-lethal weapon he's carrying. "It's a pepperball," he answers. "So it's like a gun that shoots pepper spray?" she asks. "I feel safe."

9:43 p.m. — "Why is the library closed?" another protester asks. "Because campus is closing," Carpenter answers. "Why?" she asks. "Because these types of things don't just attract nice people like you, they attract people from the outside who will do damage to things." Another protester then chimes in: "It's because someone higher up decided to escalate."

10:13 p.m. — Cress directs CHP officers on scene on the exit strategy, saying the plan is to walk down the stairs south from the quad and "go to cars," saying officers at the other doors can "just fall in line." The crowd, now several hundred people deep, continues chanting. Cress touches base with other UPD officers to make sure they're not leaving any equipment behind as other officers spread word of the exit plan.

10:14 p.m. — Stephens tells his EPD officers, "We're leaving." Stephens later told the Journal the sheriff's office was the first agency that decided to pull its officers out, and that he and CHP were discussing following suit, while school administration "wanted to send people into the building one more time."

10:15 p.m. — Jackson directs officers with shields to form a line on the left side of the group as they leave to protect officers from any aggressive protesters. Cress tells Jackson they're waiting on "negotiations inside" the building, saying Johnson will call her with the final order for officers to leave.

10:16 p.m. — Cress tells Jackson that CHP officers are going to circle the building and tell other officers the departure plan. "Are there still crowds ... at the other doors?" Jackson asks. "Yeah," Cress answers. Not anywhere near this, but there are groups." Jackson responds she can "guarantee" the crowds will be inside the building once police leave. "Do you know if they broke into the president's office? My guess is yes," she says. "I don't know," Cress responds. "Well," Jackson continues, "the alarms haven't gone off."

10:18 p.m. — Cress checks with CHP officers to make sure they've spread the word and they say they have. "So we're ready on the signal?" Cress asks. "Yep," a CHP officer responds. Cress also confesses he "just remembered" his truck is parked on the quad, in the thick of the protest.