Two East Oakland residents are suing the Oakland Police Department saying that officers serving a search warrant threw them each down the stairs to their apartment, injuring the woman who was recovering from knee surgery.

The suit also alleges that the officers had the wrong apartment, looking for a drug dealer that didn’t live there and who neither of the residents knows …

[One resident] was sleeping on the couch at 2:30 p.m. when she heard aggressive knocks at her front door and windows.

When she got to the door, she asked, “Who is it?” and looked out the window, seeing the nine officers with their guns drawn and holding a battering ram.

They said if she didn’t open the door they would enter by force. She opened the door and the officers grabbed her. She lifted her pant leg and told them she had recently had a knee replacement, but they pulled her out of the apartment and threw her down the steps, injuring her knee, according to the complaint …

They told the officers they had the wrong apartment, but one sergeant told them, “so what?” and “take it up with the people up front,” according to the complaint.