We had a similar situation outside our football stadium. Vendors were selling offensive T-shirts. The police put their heads together and decided it was a free speech issue but they told the vendors they would have to pay local merchant taxes on the sales. They left. The vendors were ready to go to the mat over free speech but didn’t want to pay taxes.
“The vendors were ready to go to the mat over free speech but didn’t want to pay taxes.”
Hmmm. That almost raises the suspicion that they were only there to instigate a Free Speech controversy.