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You're very right, correlation is not causation.

And if our world was a perfect little world not burdened by mountains of evidence that racisim (intentional, sub-conscious, institutional, and otherwise) didn't plague our country, our country's law enforcement apparatus, and the very laws they enforce (see crack cocaine vs powder cocaine sentencing disparities) then I might agree that much was being made of nothing.

But, we do have evidence, we do hear stories, and to persist in believing that these correlations are nothing more than than that, correlations, seems to me to be strikingly naive. I respect your desire for something more substantial than correlations, like proof or evidence of causation, but that seems very difficult/impossible to come buy in this type of situation. What are we going to do, take a group of randomly selected racist cops and non-racist cops and compare their rates of stops, searches, seizures, and number of times they sick their dogs on people?

If you think that there is a perfectly innocent explanation for all of these statistics showing correlations between horrible events and the race of the victim, you have more faith in America and Americans than I, or any other reasonable person, should have.

Admitting that there is a problem is Step 1.