Roadblock

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A roadblock is a temporary installation set up to control or block traffic along a road. The reasons for one could be:

• Roadworks
• Temporary road closure during special events
• Police chase
• Robbery
• Sobriety checkpoint
• Protests

In peaceful circumstances, they are usually installed by the police or road transport authorities; they are also commonly employed during wars and are usually staffed by heavily armed soldiers in that case. During protests and riots, both police and demonstrators sometimes use roadblocks.Who Approves of Those Who Block Roads to

Protest in the Americas? http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/IO921en.pdf[http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=gblr Clearing the Path for Land Rights, One Road Block at a Time: How Peru's Indigenous Population can Assert Their Land Rights Against Peru's Government], 1 Global Bus. L. Rev. 229 (2010-2011)

File:Roadblock in Palestine.jpg|Roadblock in the West Bank

File:Barykada.jpg|Polish barricade during the Warsaw Uprising (1944)

File:Roadblocks.jpg|Roadblock during roadworks at Hisingen, Sweden, 2013

File:London November 23 2018 (19) Extinction Rebellion Protest Tower Hill.jpg|'Swarming roadblocks' Extinction Rebellion, (UK) (23 November 2018).