Who Do You Believe?

Who do you believe in the recent Atlanta shooting?  A National Guard soldier, Spc. Craig Perkins, claims he was taunted by young Muslim men and was pursued by them to his girl-friend’s apartment.  The young Muslims said they:

were simply out for a walk with two women when they passed through Perkins’ apartment complex. [They] told police Perkins came out of his apartment and confronted them for allegedly looking at him or his girlfriend.

That’s according to  David Simpson in The Atlanta Constitution.

Perkins and his girl-friend lived in an apartment complex whose renters were mostly “refugees of violent conflicts around the world.” Perkins

said he could feel the animosity when he walked by his Middle Eastern neighbors in his Guard uniform.
Women and older men tended to be polite, but the younger men were hostile, he said.
On many occasions, he said, he received signs of disrespect he knew from Iraq.

And then it ended in a confrontation in which Perkins shot one of the Muslims in the leg. 

It’s an interesting story.  Who do you believe?  The black US soldier in uniform whose service in the “National Guard helped him straighten out after a series of scrapes with the law as a young man?”  Or do you believe Tareq Ali Bualsafared, a student from the United Arab Emirates?

The question is, as it always is: Who is the victim?

But, as a conservative, I’m just not qualified to judge.