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A judge's ruling on Stacy Bonds's case prompted an investigation by Chief of Ottawa Police Vern White. But that's on hold pending a probe by Ontario's Special Investigations Unit. (Pawel Dwulit/Canadian Press)

A judge has released a segment of surveillance video showing the controversial strip search of a woman by Ottawa police in September 2008.

Stacy Bonds, 27, was strip searched after being arrested on a street for public intoxication -- a charge stayed by Justice Richard Lajoie of the Ontario Court of Justice last month.

The video shows Bonds being forced to the ground and pinned by four officers before having her bra cut off.

It would be a "travesty to permit these proceedings to go on" because of the "appalling behaviours" of police officers seen in a videotape presented in court, the judge ruled.

Lajoie ruled that while the accused had been drinking when she was arrested, there was "no evidence that Ms. Bonds was a threat to herself or anyone else" and so there was no grounds to detain her.

The officers left Bonds alone in a jail cell "half-naked and having soiled her pants" after the search, the judge said.

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