Toronto’s integrity commissioner has found Rob Ford was “unnecessarily reckless” when he bowled over Councillor Pam McConnell in council chambers in 2013.

Councillor Ford, then the city’s mayor, broke council's code of conduct, and his actions — “lacking decorum” — amounted to discreditable conduct when he tore through the floor of council, bowling McConnell over in the process, Valerie Jepson ruled in a report released Friday morning.

The commotion happened during a raucous November 2013 council meeting that saw Ford stripped by council colleagues of most of his mayoral powers, at the height of a scandal surrounding his crack smoking.

Ford appeared to be sprinting over to the public gallery, where his brother, then Etobicoke North Councillor Doug Ford, was shouting at spectators in the crowd. After he was criticized on the floor following the collision, Ford apologized to McConnell, who appeared shaken.

Ford, according to Jepson, “accepts the findings in the report.” In a rare move from the former mayor, who has challenged several watchdog reports that ruled against him, Jepson said Ford offered his apologies without threatened sanctions.

“To express his regret for his actions and the harm that he caused, he offered to make a payment to an organization of Councillor McConnell's choice,” Jepson wrote, adding she won't be naming the organization so as not attract unwanted attention to it.

Video of the incident was replayed on social media and late-night talk shows during the ongoing controversy involving a different video, which showed Ford smoking crack.

McConnell, who Jepson says suffered “physical and emotional harm,” filed the complaint against Ford in July of last year. McConnell is currently one of four deputy mayors.

The report will be considered by council at a meeting next week.