Nice of you to assume that someone who has multiple people pointing guns at him and screaming mutually contradictory orders must be guilty of something to panic.
If those shouting mutually contradictory orders and pointing guns at an innocent citizen did not wear magical government costumes, no one here would believe “flight or fight” to be an irrational response to the situation.
Such people judge the rightness or wrongness of an action based not on the action, but on the costume donned by the perpetrators.