The viral video of a woman stealing a trash can and dumping its contents after the Knicks’ victory has led to her termination. Angie Baez, 40, was the “Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce” for JPMorgan Chase. She was shown in a video dumping trash on the ground to steal a Knicks-colored trash can after the NBA Finals. JPMorgan apparently concluded that this was neither the publicity nor the type of Community Engagement they are seeking.
The videotape of the incident shocked many by Baez’s cavalier attitude, not just in stealing the trash can but in dumping out the garbage.
The New York Post later reported that the woman had been identified as Angie Baez. She previously served as “Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” at The Infatuation, a website that reviews restaurants and neighborhood activities.
Once she was identified, JPMorgan Chase issued a statement, “This employee is no longer with the company.”
We have often discussed the difficult questions surrounding the termination of employees for speech in their private lives that is considered harmful to an employer. Whether it is conduct or speech, private companies often reserve the right to terminate any employee who brings negative attention to the company, even when they do not reference or display an association with the company. In today’s web-savvy world, it does not take long for motivated individuals to learn the identity and associations of public figures.
We have seen companies fire employees for drunken displays and abusing others in viral videotapes. There is little recourse in such cases, particularly for at-will employees.
In the case of Baez, she falls into the same category as Adam Smith (not the economist), who made a fool out of himself at a Chick-fil-A.
Ultimately, Baez was not even allowed to keep the trash can. She was also given a $75 fine for littering and a $100 fine for impeding Department of Sanitation operations. That proved to be an expensive memento for the Knicks victory.
NB: This blog column was updated with the news of the later fines issued to Baez.
Why are the freedom-lovers in this blog ok with employers tyrannizing workers?
I thought the goal of America was more freedom, not less.
^ Communist comments are getting stupider by the minute this evening ^
People are free not to employ pigs who steal and litter, you f*cking moron
Freedom to embarrass your employer? is that on the marxist list? Don’t see that freedom in the Constitution but protecting their property certainly is. Here’s an idea: Maybe LEARN from her mistake? Nos leftys will double down and insist this theft is fine. Crime must be allowed as the entire commie platform is a crime against humanity.
JP Morgan fired her for committing crimes PUBLICLY.
That is not tyranny.
Who said you had a right to any job ?
The goal is freedom – your freedom to quit, your employers freedom to tell you to leave.
Free markets mean perfect freedom for all parties.
Neither party in any exchange is obligated beyond What they have chosen to agree to.
If this person has an employment contract that says she can not be fired for publicly embarrassing her employer or committing crimes – then she should get her job back.
But such contracts are rare to non existent.
You can FORCE your employer to pay you for the work you have done – nothing more.
Employment – like ALL FREE EXCHANGE – is perfectly free.
What about what you do in your own bedroom at 3:00 am?
Can you be fired for that?
Communists have no understanding of business. This ^ type of comment is proof of their ignorance and stupidity.
if it’s a crime…what are you planning?
Yes. You can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. You can quit for any reason or no reason at all.
You and your employer have the same freedom.
You are not likely to be fired for what you do in your bedroom at 3am – because unless it is a crime or something vile that becomes public your employer is not likely to know.
Your employer will never fire you over things they do not know of. Just as you will never quit over your employers activities you do not know about.
Elon Musk is a hypocrite for employing illegal aliens to install Tesla charging stations.
How so ? It is not the responsibility of employers to vet their employess for anything unrelated to the job.
It was governments job to keep illegals out of the country under Biden.
It is governments job to remove them – not musks.
It’s not racism. It’s not white supremacy as a pejorative.
It’s ambition, capability, endeavor, sacrifice, service, and merited success rather than false claims to “equality” and other people’s money.
To wit,
Franklin’s Kite Experiment • First Practical Telegraph • First Telephone Call • First Electric Power Grid • First Skyscraper • First Oil Boom • First Powered Flight • First Assembly Line • First Commercial Radio Network • First Transatlantic Solo Flight • First Nuclear Chain Reaction • First Atomic Bomb • First Sound Barrier Crossing • First Commercial Computer • First Transistor • First Integrated Circuit • First Nuclear Submarine • First Artificial Satellite Navigation • First American In Orbit • First Moon Landing • First Computer Network • First Microprocessor • First Mobile Phone Call • First Personal Computer • First Graphical User Interface • First Commercial Internet Service • First Search Engine Giant • First Online Retail Giant • First Smartphone Revolution • First Social Media Platform • First Cryptocurrency Revolution • First Reusable Orbital Rocket • First Private Spacecraft Docking • First Practical Artificial Intelligence • First Four-Trillion-Dollar Company • First Trillion-Dollar Company • First Trillionaire
vvvvvvvvvvv Chinese Communist Party (CCP) vvvvvvvvvv
ambition. That’s what America does to people. it makes them super-ambitious as they realize what that freedom truly implies.
Trump’s EPA Dumping Toxic Heavy Metals In Waterways
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to roll back limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers through polluted groundwater, saying a three-year-old rule is unduly costly for the energy industry at a time when energy demand is spiking.
It is the latest step that President Donald Trump’s administration has taken to pull back regulations on coal mining and coal-fired power and empower fossil fuels as a primary energy source to feed the rapid growth of artificial intelligence data centers.
Earthjustice said the lakes, rivers and other waterways that will see more pollution as a result of the EPA’s proposal are often sources of drinking water that tens of millions of people rely on. Coal-fired power plants are by far one of the largest sources of toxic pollutants in America’s rivers, lakes and streams, Earthjustice said.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/epa-toxic-wastewater-coal-fired-power-plants/
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This rollback of regulations is a gift to the coal industry whose welfare Trump is deeply concerned with. Though Trump is doing everything possible to sabotage renewable energies.
If we’re upset by some idiot dumping trash on the sidewalk, this rollback should upset us even more.
^^^^^^^^^^Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ^^^^^^^^^^
Wow you might want to go start your OWN blog somewhere far from here as this is not the place for you to find attentive readers.
Oh, you might want to get that TDS in check too, before it makes you do something stupid like this moron did.
by the way, we are in the middle of an ice age and we need to burn all the carbon to slow it or civilization’s over.
No one is sabotaging so called renewables (all energy is renewable – and it all comes from the sun).
But like any other product on the market – “renewables” must compete in the free market absent government propping them up.
With respect to the EPA and your regulations – eliminate them all, and if YOU are actually harmed by a coal plant – you have a tort claim.
Businesses are far more scared of torts than govenrment.
BTW you clearly know nothing about Science – EVERYTHING is toxic.
Could it be that this was simply her own way of expressing herself under the First Amendment?
No. This was not speech or expression. It was pure conduct. It has nothing to do with the First Amendment.
She’s a PIG. Dumping garbage where someone else has to pick it up…
She made a bad decision. JP Morgan Chase can’t afford to have their “Executives” make bad decisions. Bad for business.
Why do alleged lovers of freedom rationalize tyranny from private entities?
Tyranny?! You can’t be serious. It would be tyranny if anyone tried to force the bank, a private entity, to associate with a criminal that it didn’t want to associate with. I see you are thought-challenged.
tell me you’re a communist with saying you’re a communist….
What tyranny ? You have no right to a job – just as your employer has no right to your employment.
Everyday you must produce sufficient value to make it worth your employers while to keep you.
Everyday you are free to decide that your value is greater than you are paid and to leave and go elsewhere.
There is no tyranny in your employuer deciding you are more trouble than you are worth.
There is no tyranny in you deciding for whatever reason you do not wish to work for your employer any longer.
You are equally free.
Trying to impose constraints on your employer that are not also on you – That is tyranny.
Does this affect her job performance?
The criteria is not “job performance” – it is VALUE – and Value is subjective.
Regardless you are employed and paid because of the value you bring to your employer.
Conversely you work because of the value they provide YOU.
Myriads of factors go into YOUR choice and your employers – you are both free.
Elsewhere someone noted that “Talent gets more tolerance” – that is incorrect – what is correct is your employer MAY choose to overlook more if your value is greater.
Job performance is a FACTOR in value – it is NOT the entirety of your value. Being caught publicly stealing and littering harms your employer as well as you.
She took the can and got canned!
So, tyranny has been banned everywhere in the land of the free except for the workplace?
Is it desirable to have workplaces that are so arbritrary and tyrannical?
I have to believe this is sarcastic. Nobody can be that stupid.
Please, please HOLD onto your opinions like they are precious to you. You are the example we will point to now. please tell everyone you know that you feel this is tyranny, please! Do not learn anything about employers rights. You already know it all! In fact don’t read anything anymore, just PUSH your view hard, PLEASE! Insist you are correct! We need more ‘useful people’ like you to more closely draw the distinction between left and right. You are very important now, don’t mess it up. And tell everyone how this lady is just a victim. yeah do that. please?
If you do not like your workplace you are free to leave – absolutely no tyranny at all.
Your employer owes you for the work you have performed – nothing more.
You owe your employer the work you have been paid for – nothing more.
They can terminate you at anytime and owe you no explanation.
You can leave at any time and owe your employer no explanation.
Perfect freedom
Zero tyranny.
Words have meaning
Tyranny does not mean you can not be fired for getting caught publicly stealing and littering.
It means you are compelled to ACT by FORCE
There is no FORCE involved here.
Can my employer fire me if I get an abortion, or vote for a Democrat?
49 states are at-will employment. You can be fired for an untied shoe lace.
People can be fired for prohibited reasons; the person fired can bring a suit, but it will usually fail to account for the damage done and will likely slow other employers from hiring the fired person.
Now, if you participate in sexual assault, you can be elected President, as Trump has been.
Maybe and no.
Yes. Just don’t tell them, and they won’t know.
crime is the red line.
Commies don’t get it, but what commies do is criminal. Not allowed here, our Constitution prevents it.
Get a job and stop vaping.
Yes – they are unlikely to, but they can.
You are free to quit if your employer votes republican. Or for absolutely any reason you wish – or none at all.
Employment is just a form of free exchange – YOU are free not to buy chicken sandwiches from Chick-a-filet.
Chick-a-filet is free not to allow you in the building without shoes and a shirt.
Freedom is not tyranny.
MOST of us – MOST of the time do NOT take extraneous factors into account in our free exchanges
But sometimes we do.
Left wing nuts boycotted Chick-a-filet, they threatened boycotts of McD’s and as a result the entire fast food industry changed how chickens were raised.
The right boycotted AHB over trans Bud Light cans.
All of this is just Freedom and free exchange at work.
You are free to buy from anyone you want or sell to anyone you want. You can agree or refuse for ANY reason or none at all.
Perfect Freedom
Zero Tyranny.
Bringing negative attention is a subjective thing.
Being black or gay could bring negative attention.
Only in your pea-sized little tiny brain.
Damage by Knicks fans:
Vehicles: Five school buses were torched in or near Times Square, and five NYPD vehicles were struck with bats and stomped on.
Vandalism: Groups climbed traffic lights, light poles, and scaffolding. Multiple yellow cabs and personal vehicles had their windshields and hoods smashed.
Fireworks: Fans lit flares and fireworks in dense crowds, blocking vehicular traffic.
That was by white males, most likely Trump supporters, but sure, it’s the DEI person tossing trash and taking $20 trashcan that is worth writing an article about.
How many of those men are identified in this article? How many were fired?
Has anyone ever thought of a NYC street as being trash free?
Get a grip Turley. Go explain how forced labor camps were constitutional and how you’d have justified slavery.
^ This sorry ass deflection is the best a low-IQ imbecile dunce moron lefty can do when she can’t defend the perp in the story ^
Presumably, British slavery in the British colonies was justified by its British legality and then furthered of its economic imperative in the nascent U.S.
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AI Overview
The first laws legalizing slavery in the British colonies and the U.S. were established in the 17th century, beginning with Massachusetts in 1641. Later, Virginia passed pivotal legislation in 1661 establishing the legality of slavery, followed by its foundational “status of the mother” law in 1662.
The U.S. Constitution (1787): Article I, Section 9 protected the importation of enslaved persons until at least 1808. It also included the Fugitive Slave Clause, which required states to return runaway enslaved people who crossed state lines.
the USA is the LEAST racist country on earth with the most race-baiters hoping to return to the old democrat party ways.
Sorry, no racism allowed here and we even created a political party to stop your racism. just so you know manufacturing racism is racist.
How do you not see this? because you have no mental processing, only programming.
Stop running YOUR blog on Turley’s impeccable coattails.
you suck at this. Tell me the name of your marxist handler, I want to point out you are embarrassing them.
forced labor camps? like in chyna? go join them, all the communism you desire there.
PLEASE defend this trash dumper PLEASE. It will tell voters all they need to know about leftys entitlement to other’s property.
Can’t defend her? why not???
$20 trash can in todays NYC? bet that cost NYC taxpayers several kickbacks and bribes as well as $400 for the can.
Typical lefty doesn’t know the value of things, especially not human life. Summary: you’re an idiot. not ‘useful’ either so have no pride in it.
Was she off the clock?
Did she do it on her own free time?
Disney has fired character actors who were so good in the role that visitors would look for them.
Companies dislike any publicity they cannot control, good or bad.
Why not try it with your employer and find out? How dare they tell you to remain crime-free and not to put the company in a bad light?
You have a right to crime on your own time right? How dare your employer question your rights to commiting any crime you want! (just not on company time). Oh, you don’t have an employer. nevermind.
Is the woman the property of JPMorgan?
Where are all our lefty trolls to tell us that stealing and dumping trash on the ground are good things?
Estovir, apparently liberals don’t like people stealing city property and dumping garbage on the street. So why are you always dumping garbage here??
This is my first comment since posting on the Memorial of St. Thomas More on June 22nd
It is hard to believe that you have been lusting after me for ~ 7 years. No matter which avatar sock puppet you use, Peter Shill, your personality disorder driven comments are easily discerned. You are not well, Peter. You are older and still a sick mf.
Estovir says: July 20, 2019 at 11:10 AM
> Estovir, it strikes me as ‘ironic’ that a good Catholic like yourself…
I thank you for that but you show us the novice that you are on these affairs.
How often do I have to quote your employer’s credo? Can’t you do any better than pulling out his rules to come at me? sheesh.
Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals:
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
Back to troll school for you.
Good to know I still get under your skin and in your head.
https://jonathanturley.org/2019/07/19/the-fall-of-civility-and-the-rise-of-les-infants-terrible/comment-page-3/#comment-1866203
Estovir, let’s get this straight: ‘You were on vacation when Meyer texted you to say you were named in a comment’? So you got online right away to reply??
This incident should tell you everything you need to know about DEI and its proponents.
The Jan 6th riot at the Capitol should tell you everything you need to know about Trump and his supporters. Literally climbing walls and hunting for V.P. Pence? Why bash out windows when the doors were unlocked?
The Trump Rally should tell you about being a patriotic and constitutional American, while 274 undercover FBI operatives should tell you about covert communist incitement to riot and the cowardice and treason of she/her/they/them Mike Pence.
Just imagine if the American Revolutionaries were as dastardly as Mike Pence; there would have been no revolution, or one with purses and handbags as weapons, and no United States of America.
so you agree “This incident should tell you everything you need to know about DEI and its proponents.”?
sounds like you agree cause you’re saying ‘but Mom! others do it, why can’t I?’
Why not just say you support this things right to criminality?
I knew there was a catch when they called her an “executive”, lol.
Executive? All I saw was a Mack Truck with a trash can.
Einhorn is Finkle!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HbPucpAzqN0
S-OT
“New York, New York” you should have listened to Joe McCarthy.
Instead, you got Comrade Secretary-General and Dear Leader Zorro Madman Moohamed and His Three Communist Dwarfs.
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Key McCarthy Speeches and Accusations
The “Enemies from Within” (1950): In his Wheeling speech, McCarthy claimed that the U.S. was losing the Cold War due to treason by privileged, high-ranking government officials who had access to American secrets.
The Marshall Attack (1951): He heavily attacked former Secretary of State George C. Marshall, accusing him of treason and claiming he was part of “a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man.”
McCarthyism (1954): He coined the term “McCarthyism” to define his movement, once stating on CBS that “McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.”
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“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
– Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz
The term “McCarthyism” was coined by political cartoonist Herbert Block
As noted, cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock) coined “McCarthyism” in March 1950. “McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled” was actually spoken by Howard Rushmore, a prominent anti-communist journalist, screenwriter, and McCarthy supporter. Rushmore used this definition to defend the Senator’s aggressive tactics, turning a term that was originally meant as a criticism into a badge of honor for the movement.
The stupidity and lack of self-control of the younger leftist generation is astounding. Lose a job for a trashcan.
it’s getting more obvious everyday that these leftists are suffering from some kind of mental illness.
The South Carolina Chief Magistrate James B. Gosnell, who called Dylan Roof’s family “victims,” was arrested on child pornography charges.
“Gosnell was arrested in September 2025 on federal charges for possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. He was subsequently suspended and faces up to 100 years in prison, with his trial scheduled to begin on August 24, 2026”
Typical Republican.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That moronic deflection the best you got? Idiot