Advocates planned to hold a rally outside the Hamden Police Department on Tuesday evening over allegations that police could have done more to stop a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a car wash last week that led to eight people being taken into custody.

Ahead of the rally, police issued a statement saying dispatchers received a call from a federal special agent with Homeland Security Investigations just before 8:15 a.m. last Wednesday who alerted them to an investigation that would be carried out on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden between 9:15 a.m. and 10 a.m. The agents reportedly said the operation would take about 15 minutes and that they would contact police once it was over.

“However, the Special Agent would not provide an exact address nor a cross street location and

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