"Public outcry" refers to when a large number of people express their strong emotions or protest loudly and publicly about an issue or situation that they feel strongly about. Full definition
This soul searching started in earnest earlier this month after public outcry over the price of lifesaving drug, EpiPen. (businessinsider.com)
Wasn't it employers who forced employees to work in such unsafe conditions that in 1970 Congress created, and President Nixon signed into law, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after public outcry against rising injury and death rates on the job? (thealt.com)
The change follows public outcry against MOCA's prior decision to leave the chief curator position unfilled, thereby consolidating curatorial duties to Jeffrey Deitch, the museum's director. (artfcity.com)