A San Francisco woman who was allegedly attacked by a man who she says called her the N-word as he passed her on the street in the Financial District Monday says she no longer feels safe walking on her own in the city. And, meanwhile, Black community leaders held a press conference Thursday to discuss a perceived uptick in anti-Black violence and hate.

Wendy Drew, a native of South Africa who has called San Francisco home for two decades, says she was standing outside Terminus bar on California Street Monday when a man walking his dog called her the N-word. She confronted the passerby, and he then allegedly assaulted her — surveillance video obtained by KTVU shows the attack as the suspect pushed Drew to the ground inside a next-door liquor store, and then began rapidly punching her in the face while she was on the ground, all while his dog stood by barking.

As Drew told KPIX, "This guy looks pretty normal, with this dog, walks by and he calls me the N-word, right? And I was like, excuse me, why are you calling me that? So he comes back and says what? Then he starts pummelling, and just knocks me down."

Drew says she held onto the suspect as she yelled for others to call police, and that she had to fight him off for nearly five minutes.

The suspect was subdued by Drew's boyfriend and other men who had heard the commotion from inside Terminus and come outside, and the man was quickly arrested.

He's been identified as Irvin Alberto Rivera-Lara, 31, and he faces potential charges of assault likely to cause great bodily injury, committing a hate crime, and providing false information to a peace officer. Rivera-Lara reportedly has a record of violence, and was arrested last year on battery charges for relating to an attack on a chef.

Drew, coincidentally, is also a chef, and she appeared on the Netflix series You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment. The show explored how changing one's diet can affect one's health in an eight-week period.

Wendy's twin sister tells KPIX and KTVU that she believes the man was out looking for a fight. "When he obviously sees Wendy, he sees a Black woman, and what is the trigger word for Nlack people, the n-word," Pam Drew tells KPIX. "So he's obviously doing things to trigger people's emotions."

"This man does have a rap sheet of violence. So this to me is a person that is walking around looking for trouble," Pam Drew said to KTVU.

When contacted outside her home in the Inner Sunset, Wendy Drew told KTVU, "I’m walking around with my sister [now]. I don’t feel safe. I don’t feel safe at all. I need to have someone next to me."

This random attack took place the same week that local NAACP chapter president the Rev. Amos Brown hosted a press conference at Third Baptist Church to call attention to recent, seemingly racially motivated attacks. Brown held a similar conference in April to discuss a spate of racial incidents at SF public schools.

As Mission Local reported from the event, one focus was on a brutal July incident between a Black woman who was allegedly jaywalking and an SFPD officer. That woman, third-generation San Franciscan Christiana Porter, said at the event, "There is no way I should have been brutalized the way I was for merely walking across the street — in the crosswalk." And, per Mission Local, she said she had never experienced "so much hate" for being a Black person here as she did that day, at the hands of SFPD Officer Josh McFall.

The event also spotlighted some recent racist graffiti at the site of an after-school program called Youth 1st. And the recent, possibly racially motivated arson at the home of Alamo Square dogwalker Terry Williams — who said he had received a racist doll at his home in the weeks prior to the fire.

Police chief Bill Scott and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins were both in attendance at the meeting, and Mission Local reported that a community member addressed Scott directly, saying that the incident involving Porter was "wrong," and saying, "I hope you hold those officers accountable."

"It is imperative that San Francisco and Bay Area law enforcement officials, as well as its citizens, repudiate these activities, find and punish the perpetrators, and take steps to prevent future occurrences," said Brown in a release prior to the event.