Fighting, stomping, guns: Mom compiles 'Gilbert Goons' social media video, images
Karli Heinmiller compiled video and images about the "Gilbert Goons" she retrieved from from social media accounts and private chats.
Heinmiller became concerned when her daughter started dating one of the gang members in 2022.
"There were so many videos of them fighting … stomping somebody … more guns than anything I've ever seen in my whole life," she said.
There were clips of kids — some younger than her daughter — attacking other kids, flashing firearms and street racing in high-performance vehicles.
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Posts showed kids spinning doughnuts behind shopping centers while kids held onto the roofs or leaned out windows. Some videos were backed with homemade rap songs.
Photos showed kids pointing guns at one another, posing with handfuls of cash, drinking and vaping. One appeared to show lines of cocaine on a case for sneaker-cleaning wipes with the caption, "I Ben skiin all week."
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