The Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) today released video footage relating to a death of a civilian following an encounter with law enforcement in Jersey City, New Jersey, on October 21, 2025. The decedent is identified as Teshawn Rogers, 27, of Jersey City.
This fatal police encounter is under investigation by OPIA. The recordings are being released pursuant to policies established by the Attorney General’s Office in 2019 designed to promote the fair, impartial, and transparent investigation of a person’s death during an encounter with law enforcement. Representatives of Mr. Rogers’ family were given an opportunity to review the recordings prior to their public release.
The fatal police encounter involved members of the Jersey City Police Department’s Street Crimes Unit, a unit that consists of plainclothes officers and utilizes unmarked vehicles. According to the preliminary investigation, officers assigned to the unit encountered Mr. Rogers in the area of Bergen and Virginia avenues shortly after 1 a.m. Specifically, as Mr. Rogers was walking northbound on Bergen Avenue, two officers in an unmarked vehicle pulled to the side of the road ahead of Mr. Rogers (BWC-1 and BWC-2). Mr. Rogers immediately discharged a firearm and ran southbound. The officers in the first vehicle did not discharge their weapons.
A separate police vehicle containing additional members of the Unit pulled to the side of the road as Mr. Rogers ran southbound. Officer Lance Jackson exited from the passenger side of that vehicle and discharged his weapon, striking Mr. Rogers (BWC-3). Two surveillance videos, only one of which recorded audio, are also being released today (Surveillance 1 and Surveillance 2). Emergency medical aid was provided before Mr. Rogers was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced deceased at approximately 1:44 a.m. A firearm was recovered at the scene.
The body-worn camera, surveillance video, and radio transmissions are available here: https://njoag.box.com/s/5pgcud5c4ne6wwnhmfxzvtqoguhx4lzf
A 2019 law, N.J.S.A. 52:17B-107(a)(2), requires the Attorney General’s Office to conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody. It requires that all such investigations be presented to a grand jury to determine if the evidence supports the return of an indictment against the officer or officers involved.
The investigation is ongoing and no further details are being released at this time.
