An 11-year-old boy was left in tears after a petrol station attendant in North Queensland allegedly treated the child like a thief, without any grounds whatsoever.

First Nations woman Sari-Ella Thaiday used TikTok to highlight the experiences of her younger brother, who was seemingly racially profiled in the Ampol service station.

In a video on her account 'justanotherblakgirl', Ms Thaiday confronted the shop attendant at the station in Manunda, Cairns, who had reduced her brother to tears after he went into the shop to purchase items.

Speaking to the man off camera, Ms Thaiday asks: "Did you just growl at my brother, saying, 'I'm watching you'?"

In response, the attendant argued it "wasn't meant that way".

Explaining that she has a dog and is waiting outside whilst her brother was inside purchasing items, Ms Thaiday said he was upset and requested an apology.

"He's come out here upset. Do you want to go say sorry to him? Tell him you didn't mean it like that because he's really upset," she said.

Off camera the attendant argued they shouldn't "take offence to that," before stating: "If I thought you were going to steal something, I would have said something a lot more."

"You don't treat people like that just because there's not an adult here, there's one standing right out here," Ms Thaiday says in response.

"You don't talk to a little kid like that, that's what I'm saying."

The attendant replied: "Do you know how many kids steal from this shop?"

When told her brother isn't "one of them," he answered: "I'm not saying he was."

Ms Thaiday said there is no excuse to generalise and treat children rudely, to which the attendant argues he wasn't generalising, seemingly contradicting his comments moments earlier.

As he walked back into the store, the attendant said "Get off your high horse".

Ms Thaiday was widely praised for standing up for her brother, with many others were critical of the Ampol attendant as racist for seemingly profiling her brother.

National Indigenous Times has contacted Ampol for comment. In another video, Ms Thaiday said the company had told her it is investigating the incident.

National Indigenous Times has not yet secured permission from Ms Thaiday to share the videos.