Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

I've got to get my MD and chiropractor friends to look at this image because it doesn't make sense. He's kneeling on the man's neck, and I have drawn a line to represent the line of his thigh. To my eyes, his thigh looks too long in relation to his leg. The thigh is longer than the leg, typically a ratio of 56 to 48. But, the difference here looks greater than that to my eyes. 

The knee is a hinge joint. It opens and closes. Or, you could say that it flexes or extends the leg. But, it's a very unidimensional movement. There's not much play in it, and the less the better from an orthopedic standpoint. But, I drew a shorter line to indicate the plane of the lower leg, and I don't see how that leg could be going to that knee. Look how far down the knee dips. Look where the patella is. It's much lower than his leg. This is a doctored image. 

And why would the foot be turned out the way it is? When you kneel, and remember that it's the word "knee" with an "l" added on, the natural tendency is to leave the foot neutral. Say you were kneeling in a pew in church, that's what you would do. You wouldn't twist your ankle like that. There would be no reason to do it, and it would uncomfortable to do it. It would be hard to do it, meaning that you would have to strain to do it. 

But, I tried to do it. First, this is me using a book as a surrogate for a neck. 

So, I just knelt without thinking about it. Notice that my foot is in neutral position, it is not rotated at all. Notice the perfect correlation between my thigh and my lower leg. You know that they're connected. And notice that the lengths are more appropriate. You get the sense that my femur is longer but not a heck of a lot longer. 

But then, I did it again and purposefully twisted my foot, trying to duplicate what Chauven appears to be doing.

So, you can see my foot turned out. It was a strain for me to do that. And I can tell you that one effect that it had was to lift my body weight off my knee some.  So, I was not pressing into the book as hard any more. In other words, it shifted my weight. But, why if someone was kneeling for any purpose would they turn their foot out like that? It makes no sense. 

So, as I look at Chauven, I wonder why his thigh is so long compared to his leg; why the plane of his leg doesn't match up with where his thigh ends, and why his foot is twisted; turned out; and I mean a lot. 

Let's look at some other men kneeling.

I found another image of Chauven doing it, and this one is even worse. This is absolutely impossible. No one could rotate their foot this much in this position without breaking their ankle. The ankle joint doesn't twist this far. It would surely snap. 

He's got his foot turned there all the way: 90 degrees. His foot is turned completely sideways, but he himself is kneeling straight down. It's impossible. The body doesn't work like that. It doesn't have that capacity. If you tried to do it, as a feat, you'd have to start by twisting at the top, at your hip joint. You could never get that much rotation at the ankle. But, he is not turning his hip out; he is just kneeling. He appears to be kneeling straight down, and then his leg goes back, and remember: there is no rotation at the knee. Then, for some reason, his foot is abruptly rotated a full 90 degrees, where it is lying sideways. That is impossible! 

What is going on here? Is Derek Chauven being railroaded with phony images? Is he the latest Lee Harvey Oswald?  What, are they trying to start a race war in the United States?