Comedian Andy Samberg dropped a truth bomb in the middle of a joke during his hosting gig at the 2019 Golden Globes.

The Saturday Night Live alum shouted out fellow Bay Area native and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler during his monologue with co-host Sandra Oh, reports SFGate. In the middle of his spiel, he acknowledged law enforcement's treatment of the Black Panther Party.

"If you told me as a kid growing up in the Bay that there was a movie called Black Panther that starts off in Oakland, this is not what I would have imagined," Samberg said.

"Ryan, were there a bunch of old members of the actual Black Panther Party saying, 'I can't even get an audition?' Just kidding they were all framed and murdered for wanting justice and equality. The world is and always has been a nightmare. It just seems worse now because of our phones."

The barb drew light laughter from the audience, but Coogler did not seem amused.

Samberg ain't lying, though. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in 1966 and disbanded in the 1980s due to government intervention. Former Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered by the Chicago police in 1969 as he slept next to his heavily pregnant wife. He was only 21 years old. 

"I was nine months pregnant, and one of the officers shouted, ‘He’s in here with his girl, and she’s pregnant.’ They took me out of the room in handcuffs and into the kitchen, and then I heard several shots fired from the bedroom,” she told The Chicago Citizen in 2018. “I then heard a cop say, ‘He’s good and dead now.’ And that was how my husband violently died at age 21. Those ‘pigs’ stood over him and shot him. That’s why I say he was assassinated by the police.”

Twenty-two-year-old Mark Clark was killed in the same attack, according to History. And as NPR reports, 17-year-old Black Panther Bobby Hutton was killed by police one year earlier after he'd agreed to be taken into custody.

The FBI itself worked to dismantle the organization, and as HuffPost notes, it considered the assassination of Malcolm X as an example to follow in its efforts to destroy the Black Panthers.

Many living Panthers have spent decades in prison. Mumia Abu-Jamal has been behind bars since 1982 for allegedly killing officer Daniel Faulkner. He spent 29 years on death row until his sentence was commuted to life without the possibility of parole in 2011. He was granted a partial appeal in late December, as Blavity reported. 

Jalil Muntaqim, another incarcerated Panther, was denied release for the ninth time in December after he was convicted of killing two police officers in 1971, according to The Guardian.

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