I heard that he’s now saying that his words are being misinterpreted. Guess that’s preferable to being dead.
If you’re on a jury and the testimony is that while he was in police custody he told one story, and when he was released without being charged he told another..... which do you believe? I agree he could be changing it because he doesn’t want to get killed on the street. Or he could have said what the police wanted him to say to get out. The best you can do is just ignore his testimony all together and call him an unreliable witness who is obviously lying in one instance.