News Blast: Police caught lying about tragic car crash that killed 5 outside gay bar in Ybor City FL

From the PEP Radio Newsroom, this is the Lunch Hour news blast. LGBTQ Nation is reporting on a story we covered earlier this week: Legal authorities in Florida lied about details of a fatal car chase that killed five and injured 13 outside of a Ybor City gay bar last Saturday. Critics now say actions taken by the Tampa Police Department (TPD) and Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) may have needlessly endangered the crash’s victims. A FHP cruiser chased a Toyota Camry car as it sped along Interstate 275 South, eventually attempting an unsuccessful use of a precision immobilization technique (PIT) to end the pursuit. TPD said the PIT maneuver occurred before the car sped towards Nebraska Avenue. However, footage of the chase recorded by WTSP news video drone showed that the PIT maneuver actually occurred hundreds of feet past Nebraska Avenue, WTSP reported.