This incident triggered an anti-police brutality protest movement and swelled into an anti-government uprising, demanding the end of the minister of The Republic of Srpska.
After the news broke out, mass protests and peaceful demonstrations, demanding justice took place surrounding the area he had been murdered.
In September, after a wave of anger in March–April, rallies by students and families against the government and police brutality erupted and boiled into a movement nationwide, starting in Banja Luka, then Zenica, Tuzla, Mostar and Sarajevo.
Mass protests took place in rallies in Sarajevo, demanding justice over the death of Dzenan Memic, who died in 2016.
In November 2019, police brutality rioting and popular demonstrations after an orphanage scandal erupted, when children were Locked up and were threatened to death.