“He calls and just even the way he sounded I knew he was telling me it was him,” Johnson said in an interview at the Stout Criminal Justice Center on Thursday morning. Johnson said he initially gave Hill “a tongue-lashing, but it quickly transferred into, 'I need you to come out of there safe. I said you gotta know the cops are pumped up on testosterone, their brother officers have been hurt. The community’s under siege, people locked out of their homes. they’re not going to play with you for long, so I need you to come on out of there."