he threatened Santiago’s life and, second, he falsified a conduct violation report. Looking first to the alleged death threats, Santiago has produced evidence that Clubbs made at least two statements implying that if Santiago did not drop his excessive force grievance against Blair, he would be found hanging in his cell and that his death would be made to look like a suicide. We have long held that “a threat of retaliation is sufficient injury if made in retaliation for an inmate’s use of prison grievance procedures” to sustain a claim of First Amendment retaliation. Burgess v. Moore, 39 F.3d 216, 218 (8th Cir.1994). This is true especially when the threats are ones of death or serious harm to an inmate’s safety. See, e.g., Burton v. Livingston, 791 F.2d 97, 100-01 (8th Cir.1986) (<HOLDING>); Cooper v. Schriro, 189 F.3d 781, 784 (8th
holding that the first amendment does not protect true threats against the president holding that allegations that a prison guard retaliated against a prisoner by terrorizing him with threats of death if proved would constitute a violation of the prisoners first amendment rights holding that student stated a claim for violation of his first amendment right to speech when he alleged that school officials prevented him from openly stating that he was homosexual and retaliated against him for doing so holding that prisoners complaint alleging that he was punished for filing a grievance against a correctional officer was sufficient to provide notice of claim that he was retaliated against for exercising his first amendment rights holding that a prisoners allegations that a corrections officer retaliated against the prisoner for the prisoners report charging the officer with misconduct properly stated a claim for retaliation noting that aji allegation of retaliation should not be ignored simply because the charge was later dismissed 