A JPMorgan Chase executive director has learned the hard way that woke titles and corporate slogans cannot cover up foolish behavior captured on camera.

Angie Baez, a forty year old diversity and inclusion specialist turned self-styled community engagement expert, was fired by the banking giant after viral footage showed her emptying a Knicks themed trash can onto a Manhattan sidewalk and walking away with it in broad daylight during the team’s championship parade.

The video spread quickly across social media, drawing mockery from those who have grown weary of the incessant virtue signaling from corporate America’s social justice class.

Dressed head to toe in Knicks gear, Baez was seen brazenly dumping street trash on the ground before casually strolling off with the blue and orange receptacle, a limited edition item made for the parade.

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JPMorgan Chase confirmed to the New York Post that Baez “is no longer with the company” following an internal review of the incident.

A representative said the firm moved swiftly once they confirmed the identity of the employee in the viral clip.

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Baez herself could not be reached for comment, and sources told the Post she had attended the parade in a personal capacity.

According to her now scrubbed LinkedIn profile, Baez had been promoted more than a year ago to executive director of community and industry engagement for card and connected commerce, a title that sounds straight out of the corporate diversity handbooks currently gathering dust across Wall Street.

Prior to her Chase tenure, she worked as an executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Infatuation, a lifestyle website the bank had acquired in its push into culture marketing.

Ironically, the Infatuation once described Baez as a bright voice whose “dedication to making a positive impact shines through in every aspect of her work.”

The bio praised her Bronx roots, Dominican heritage, and passion for creative storytelling, insisting she was “leading the way toward a more inclusive and equitable future.”

That future apparently included petty theft and littering on camera.

Baez’s background reads like a corporate bingo card of modern progressive career paths.

Before joining Chase, she served as a diversity and inclusion lead at Squarespace and held similar roles at Saks Fifth Avenue, Hudson’s Bay, and Saks Off 5th.

She even co founded a collective called Same Page Co., described as a queer, black, indigenous, and people of color owned talent agency whose mission was to expand media representation.

When contacted, representatives from Same Page Co. did not comment, though plenty of online observers were ready to point out the hypocrisy of the situation.

After all, the DEI crowd has spent years lecturing ordinary Americans about moral purity, privilege, and accountability while shielding their own from consequences.

JPMorgan, to its credit, finally took decisive action, something other institutions have often avoided for fear of offending the social justice caste.

While the theft itself might sound minor, it still violated New York City law.

The trash can in question would fall under property valued below one thousand dollars, making the offense a potential case of petit larceny, a misdemeanor usually carrying a fine or community service.

The public littering that occurred on video could earn a separate citation.

Even the New York City Department of Sanitation could not resist commenting.

“Dumping trash onto the street and stealing public property for your own personal use are both illegal, antisocial behaviors, and not what New Yorkers do. On top of all that, doing both on camera is incredibly stupid,” the agency said in a statement to the Post.

It was a blunt assessment that most sensible taxpayers would likely agree with.

The NYPD said it had not received any complaint regarding the trash can incident and that Baez has not been charged.

That may change if city officials decide the public embarrassment was not enough punishment.

Either way, the damage to her reputation is already severe, especially for someone whose professional identity revolved around “representation” and “community values.”

For critics of corporate diversity programs, the situation has become a potent symbol of how hollow much of that world has become.

DEI offices and consultants have siphoned billions in company funds while producing little more than slogans and public relations slideshows.

When one of their own gets caught quite literally dumping garbage on the street and stealing public property, it speaks volumes about what passes for leadership in that world.

Baez may try to relaunch herself in activist or media circles, though the viral clip will follow her.

It is a visual that cuts straight through the polished language of her career materials and exposes the hollowness of her moral branding. As one online commenter quipped, “She spent her career talking about inclusion. Now she is excluded from Wall Street.”

The incident might fade from headlines soon, but many Americans see it as a rare instance when consequences caught up with a member of the self righteous elite that thrives on preaching virtue while practicing something else entirely.

For once, a corporate DEI executive did not get a pass. Instead, she got pink slipped, and the public got another reminder of how absurd the class of professional progressives has become.

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