SALEM – Nearly a dozen people protested outside Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s office Wednesday evening, criticizing the district attorney’s finding that a Lynn Police officer was justified in fatally shooting veteran Denis Reynoso during a struggle for an officer’s weapon in September.”There’s no gunshot residue, no DNA ? no physical evidence corroborating the police account and all I know is that Denis Reynoso is dead,” said event organizer Matthew Krawitz, whose business card identified him as a basterd with MassOps. According to its Facebook page, the group “works to dismantle the police state” in Massachusetts.Blodgett issued a report Tuesday concluding a five-month investigation into the fatal police shooting on Sept. 5.The report finds that officers went to Reynoso’s home in response to reports of a man, later identified as the deceased, acting strangely. The report states Reynoso, 29, opened his door to officers and the officers followed Reynoso inside, although Reynoso said he didn’t want help. The report concludes Reynoso grabbed an officer’s gun and fired two shots during the ensuing struggle over the weapon.”When Mr. Reynoso gained control of an officer’s gun and fired two rounds in close proximity to two police officers despite their attempts to get the gun away from him, he put their lives in imminent danger, thus justifying the use of lethal force by a third officer,” Blodgett said in a press release Tuesday accompanying the report.State Police later found the holster from which the officer’s gun was taken was missing one of two screws that adjust the tightness of the holster. The report also found Reynoso had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2012 and prescribed medication but withdrew from treatment.Most of the protesters did not arrive Wednesday until at least a half hour after the event was scheduled. Krawitz, Joshua Scafidi, of Lowell, and Maya Shaffer, of Leominster, said they did not know Reynoso. But the three were skeptical of almost every detail in the report, of the police and of, as Scafidi characterized it, the “propaganda machine” media. (A family member of Reynoso’s widow declined to speak on the record.)Krawitz – the only one of the three who repeatedly cited specific statements in the report – said Blodgett has “never not held for police” when investigating police-involved shootings. The three also questioned why the report did not name the witnesses – nor could media find witnesses at the scene – who said they observed Reynoso acting strangely prior to the shooting.Scafidi and Shaffer said police entering the home was “an armed home invasion by people with badges.” They said police should have left Reynoso alone if he said he didn’t want help.The three also said only officers’ testimony, not gunshot residue or conclusive DNA evidence, indicated Reynoso fired the first two shots. They rejected the report’s statement that residue could have been eliminated or made unreliable when Reynoso was prepped for surgery.”The fact is they can do better for the family,” Krawitz said. “The story doesn’t add up.”The group dispersed following the interview.