Relationship between language, gender, and power

In the following link contains the article about "Minnesota police offers shot after city council meeting".

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/27/minneapolis-police-shooting-city-council-meeting

There is some relationship between language, gender and power in this particular article. Looking at the heading "Minnesota (police officers) shot after city council meeting", it uses "police officers" instead of pointing into specific information such as policeman or policewoman meaning that the article does not have any bias to either man or woman, or does not want to reveal specific gender of wounded police since it might cause further conflict. Using the word "police officer" also means that the author does not oppress any genders. The following sentence states that "......returned fire and killed the (gunman)...". The use of the word "gunman" has specific gender-identification explained through language, which means that the convict was male. Meanwhile, if the article stated the word "gunwoman", which is rarely to be seen,  it would imply that the convict is female meaning that the detail might oppress female in some way since sometimes it is not appropriate to expose female conducting horrible deed. Reading along the article, the author still uses the same neutral word relating to victims meaning that author does not want to reveal specific information. It shows that he/she is trying to keep his/her piece neutral.