[kalee]

Broadhead is a guilt ridden liberal. He saw the bad publicity Duke was receiving and he had to stop that at any cost. Those young men were the bones he tossed to placate the marchers and activists as well as his own sense of liberal guilt.

[JLS]

Broadhead is a guilt ridden liberal.

Exactly, he is worried about seeming illiberal. That would be the biggest sin in his book.