Occupy S.F. camp sees 2nd stabbing in two days S.F. CRIME

SFPD provide security outside the Federal Reserve Bank during OccupySF in San Francisco, CALIF on Oct. 8, 2011. SFPD provide security outside the Federal Reserve Bank during OccupySF in San Francisco, CALIF on Oct. 8, 2011. Photo: Tim Maloney, The Chronicle Photo: Tim Maloney, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Occupy S.F. camp sees 2nd stabbing in two days 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A 27-year-old Occupy protester was stabbed Monday night outside the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco, one day after another activist was stabbed in the same spot, police and demonstrators said Tuesday.

The latest victim was stabbed once in the neck around 11:40 p.m. after a confrontation with a man who was unaffiliated with the Occupy camp, protesters said.

The attacker approached campers and began screaming about a conspiracy theory involving the World Trade Center, said Nick Shaw, 32, an Occupy protester.

The victim, whom fellow campers knew only as "Jimbo," chased him down the steps to the Embarcadero BART and Muni Metro station, Shaw said. The man turned and stabbed him.

The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and is expected to survive, police said.

Activists said the assailant was white and in his 30s, and was about 6 feet tall with brownish-blond hair and a thin build.

Sunday night, a man who had been hanging around the Occupy camp for a day or two got into an argument with Brian "Boston" Reid, 28, about a missing camera and stabbed him in the chest, police and protesters said.

The attacker in that case was described as white, 20 to 25 years old, about 5-foot-5 and 135 pounds. He had blond hair and was wearing a dark beanie, a dark puffy jacket and black-rimmed glasses.

Occupy activists camped for much of the fall outside the bank at 101 Market St. before police chased protesters away. The group re-established a camp in late February.

"We used to have a guard to watch for cops," Shaw said, "but now we have to have a guard watch for crazy people, too."