Philly DA lied to end standoff

‘Cop-shooter’ chat

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner negotiated a “phony baloney” sentence with the gunman in the harrowing 7½-hour standoff that ended with six cops shot.

Krasner jumped on the phone with suspect Maurice Hill while Hill was holding three people hostage in a North Philadelphia house Wednesday night, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Hill wanted to know what kind of punishment he was facing.

“Early on, I said 25 [years], then he said 20 and I said OK,” Krasner told the paper.

But it was all a ruse designed to talk the gunman down.

“We need to be clear here: This was bulls--t from the beginning,” Krasner said.

Krasner reportedly took the call at around 9 p.m. at the request of Hill’s attorney. Krasner took a second call from Hill at around 10:15 p.m.

“When [Hill] started talking about things that those of us in the business knew could not happen, [Krasner] did not thwart the negotiations by shutting him down . . . nor did he promise him anything that . . . couldn’t get done,” the attorney, Shaka Johnson, told the Inquirer.

“But he did allow that man, in his mind, to keep things in play so that he could come out of there.”

Hill appeared to be intoxicated or under the influence of prescription drugs at the time, Krasner said.

“I would have gone rollerskating with the man if that would have gotten him out of there,” Krasner quipped.

Hill was finally arrested when he left the house after police fired teargas.