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A 66-year-old Murrieta woman was struck on the head Saturday during rival demonstrations over the wording inscribed on a sculpture in Baldwin Park.

Laura Dalton, 66, suffered "inter-cranial trauma" when she was hit with a plastic water bottle at the corner of Pacific and Downing avenues about 1:20 p.m. Saturday, said Baldwin Park police Sgt. Greg Keef.

Dalton was treated at the intensive care unit at Citrus Valley Medical Center-Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina before being released Sunday, The Los Angeles Times reported.

"We're investigating this as an assault with a deadly weapon," Keef said.

Dalton was protesting with a Ventura-based group called "Save Our State," he said. The anti-illegal immigration group organized the protest against what it viewed as divisive and inflammatory wording on a city sculpture.

The group objects to the words engraved on an arch erected in 1993. The inscription says in part, "This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, and will be again."

Officers from "several neighboring police departments and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department" helped control the crowds during Saturday's demonstrations, Keef said.