Daniel Penny sat down with Judge Jeanine Pirro for a powerful first interview since jurors found him not guilty in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely.

“He was just threatening to kill people,” Penny claimed in a preview of the interview, shared by Fox News on Tuesday, telling the network that’s what motivated him to come up from behind Neely and take him to the ground in a chokehold for several minutes. “I’m not a confrontational person,” Penny claims in the clip.

In one of the most polarizing cases in recent history, former Marine Daniel Penny has received clearance in all homicide charges in the Jordan Neely case. Penny served as the prime suspect in Neely’s death,