Texas Cop Wrangles Alligator, No Gloves Needed in Body Cam Footage

A police officer in Texas has a lot of potential as a gator wrestler when he’s ready to retire … ’cause new body cam footage shows him wrangling the baby reptile.

The incident — occurring last Friday in Fulshear, Texas — was caught on body cam footage, showing an officer saunter up to a home to remove the gator from the property.

Watch the clip … the officer walks up to the scaly creature pretty calmly — saying he got a call. Instead of reaching out to animal control, he’s got it handled — since it ain’t a huge gator.

It certainly isn’t huge … but those teeth look pretty dang sharp — and, there’s a pretty tense staredown between the officer and his unfriendly foe.

Ultimately, the officer’s able to wrestle the gator under control … walking off with the creature and getting a few plaudits from people on the street watching.

Fulshear Police posted about the incident on Facebook … saying their officer handled it ’cause you can “take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”

Worth noting … gator wrangling in the area isn’t abnormal — with the police department saying it’s sort of a rite of passage for their officers.