[Texas_shutterbug]

Yes, and Crispus Attucks is described as a hero, when in fact he was a victim.

Vocabulary loses a lot of meaning in the politically correct environment.

[AnAmericanMother]

I would describe Attucks as a "perpetrator." He's a "victim" in the same way that a street thug who gets shot by the real victim in an attempted carjacking is a "victim."