Federation ships, you help them, they put bounty on you, the heck ??

Ok, after getting 75 000 credits in bounty hunting, when being nearly within safe disengage distance from the station to turn the missions in, I see this USS pop up just nearby... I am at 15% hull....greed takes over, I decide to go in and there we go, 2 federation ships battle an expert, and so I come. During combat, I never fired one shot on the federation ships, but once, I was exactly between their line of fire to the enemy, and sure, I took full loads of fire and missiles, right into me... ok, fine, the enemy is dead, time to get out, no, wait a sec, federation ships are now shooting at me for some reason !!! I got nothing illegal in cargo, all I did was be between them and the enemy once. I did still get the bounty money but they also set a bounty on me, because they hit me? No idea what is going on, lol, if someone can explain me details here, that would be great.
 
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