What has happened to Britain, where a police officer is so offended by a song mocking a global terrorist, she calls for backup to raid a party?

According to HeatStreet:

Initially, only one police officer was sent to the street around 10 p.m. to respond to a neighbor’s complaint about the loud music and alleged anti-Islamic shouting at the garden party, Cambridge News reported.

But after she overheard the song mocking former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at the party, the policewoman hit the “panic button” on her body-mounted camera. In response to the call for support, the local police sent another 10 officers and a police helicopter.

The party-goers denied shouting “anti-Islamic abuse” and said the policewoman “took offense” at the parody song being played, prompting her to call up the unnecessary reinforcements.

One of the revelers, Mark Donovan, sharply denied any wrongdoing besides playing music a little too loudly.

“It was about 10 p.m. and the music may have been a little loud, but it was before 11 p.m. Someone must have made a complaint, and a police officer attended our address, at which time a song from YouTube called ‘the Bin Laden Song’ came on,” Donovan said. “They are now investigating it as a racist crime. It is ridiculous.”

“This is music which is well known which was put on YouTube when Bin Laden was killed by the British and American army,” Donovan added. “In the music there is no reference to color, race or religion.”

No arrests have been made but police did confiscate a karaoke machine and a cell phone. Investigators are pursuing the case as an “incitement of racial hatred.”

“Our son is black, my brother and sister are black, my brother is in the American army,” Donovan protested. “The only person who took offense was the female police officer, and it’s not even a racist song.”

“Is this not a waste of police resources and public money when no crime was reported?”

Apparently it isn't in today's United Kingdom.