T cop in Dudley beating case scheduled for trial this month

Jennifer Garvey, a now former Transit Police officer, is scheduled for trial on June 22 on charges of causing injury while violating a person’s civil rights, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery and two counts of filing a false report, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Garvey is the officer who allegedly beat a woman with a baton and pepper sprayed her after the woman spoke out against the way Garvey and another officer were treating an elderly woman at the Dudley Square T stop on March 26, 2014.

The woman's attorneys at the ACLU of Massachusetts and the MBTA yesterday announced a settlement of Mary Celeste Holmes's lawsuit, in which the T acknowledged the basics of her accusations and agreed to take steps to prevent a recurrence, including mandatory aggression-management training for all T cops.

A Suffolk County grand jury indicted Garvey for her role in the incident last year.

In separate cases, Garvey was charged with assault at a concert at Gillette Stadium and with threatening her wife, also a Transit Police officer, with a gun.

Innocent, etc.