The appeals court relied on the sweeping proposition that no constitutional or statutory right prevents an officer from using deadly force when faced with “an apparently loaded weapon.” When government agents use deadly force, their own agencies control the evidence, their own lawyers defend them, and judges prevent juries from deciding whether the agent’s conduct was reasonable, accountability becomes an illusion.” Nevertheless, another officer shot Green, later claiming that he mistook him for the fleeing suspect and his badge for a gun. The district court dismissed the case before trial, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, concluding that the use of deadly force was objectively reasonable. The coalition warned that if the apparent presence of a firearm permits deadly force as a matter of law, lawful gun ownership itself may be transformed from a protected constitutional right into grounds for being shot without warning.