Johnson spoke Thursday morning to students at his alma mater, Riverview Gardens High School. With him was Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. The shooting scene in the east part of Ferguson is within the Riverview Gardens School District. The district has students who are related to Brown.

Students, including some who have taken part in the protests, led the discussion with Johnson and Koster. Students in Riverview Gardens schools began the new year on Monday and have been in class all week. Another district that borders the shooting scene, Ferguson-Florissant, was supposed to start the new year on Thursday, but has postponed class until Monday.

Gregory Moore, a senior, said the week has left him feeling unsafe, he said Friday in an interview. He and other students talked with Johnson and Koster about why Brown's death was furthering distrust of police.

"Especially being around the same age, I felt that if he could be a target, I could be a target," Moore said. He said he was treated roughly by an officer who handcuffed him and threw him into the back of a squad car once for loitering.

On Thursday, the students talked about their constitutional right to gather. One student said an officer called them animals. Another told them he still has a tear gas canister in his backyard.