https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/05/13/kaylee-gains-family-backtracks
Kaylee's family didn't backtrack. Her family didn't single her out as making a poor decision. Kaylee's step-mother stated the obvious that both girls made a bad decision.
If it's true that anybody involved in the case is claiming that Maurnice DeClue was acting in self-defense, they should all be fired for incompetence and racial bias.
There's no conceivable way that slamming Kaylee's head into the pavement over and over again after Maurnice had clearly won the fight is self-defense.
Granted, this was mutual combat, and not an unprovoked attack. Still, self-defense is no longer a claim that you can make once the threat is vanquished. We are all, in every state, legally required to stop fighting once we stop the threat.
What Maurnice did to Kaylee wasn't self-defense -- it was revenge.