No, Cruz does not. Not at all. Quite the opposite. If you would read the article you linked, you would see Cruz saying this about the protesters:
"Protesters have no right to engage in violence. The First Amendment gives every one of us a right to speak, but we don’t have a right to silence others. And to the extent these protesters are organized leftist groups, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or Bernie Sanders or George Soros, or some other moveon.org leftist group, they’re simply trying to terrorize political speech. That is not their right. It is wrong, and we need to stand against it."
How you can interpret that as Cruz "making the protesters sound like victims" is beyond me. It is exactly the opposite.
As addressed in two prior posts, that article was edited and that quote was not there.