Insert cliche about what happens when you "assume."
I was responding to your assumption that Alek Minassian wasn't shot because he wasn't black. I don't see how you could know that. It looked to me that he wasn't shot because he did not represent an imminent threat to the officer.
I haven't said anything about gender and police.
No that was me pointing out that the police shoot many more men than women. By your logic this would indicate that police shootings are influenced by sexism because the number of male victims is disproportionate to their percentage of the population.
Privilege is not a magic wand.
Right.
And if you don't understand why the force is being used and the motivations behind its abuse, you will never be able to solve the problem.
Of course we want to understand why the abuse of authority might be happening but we don't need to in order to prevent it. You solve the problem by restricting the use of force in general and by training your police to deescalate and by holding your police accountable for their actions.