Ghostbusters Star Leslie Jones Becomes Target For Online Harassment

Following Ghostbusters opening weekend Leslie Jones, who plays Patty Tolan, one of the titular Ghostbusters, has revived a torrent of racist abuse online.
The reboot of the cult 80's movie has been swamped by controversy from online trolls since it's announcement due to it's female-dominated cast. There was even a concerted campaign to make the announcement trailer the most down voted video in youtube history. The campaign failed and that inglorious honour is still held by Justin Beiber's 'Baby'.

The sheer volume of racist harassment started early Monday and reached deluge levels quickly. Jones responded to the attacks on her Twitter.

I use to wonder why some celebs don't have Twitter accts now I know. You can't be nice and communicate with fans cause people crazy.

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

She has also called for Twitter to put more guidelines in place in regards to abusive trolling.

Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that. You can see on the

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

Finally Jones was eventually defeated by the stream of vitriol and retreated from Twitter

I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today...wrong

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016